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  • adjective damaged by storm

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Examples

  • Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.

    SIWASH 2010

  • He was looking for his ship, and at last he found her—a small storm-beaten navire with the happy name of Bonne-Renommée, “Good Renown.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He was looking for his ship, and at last he found her—a small storm-beaten navire with the happy name of Bonne-Renommée, “Good Renown.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • On the beach, among the rough buggers and capstans, groups of storm-beaten boatmen, like a sort of marine monsters, watched under the lee of those objects, or stood leaning forward against the wind, looking out through battered spy-glasses.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • Two years after Hurricane Katrina left dozens of its New Orleans supermarkets storm-beaten, looted and flooded, Winn-Dixie has shrewdly and aggressively reopened most of those stores.

    Winn-Dixie Faces Fight 2007

  • These were plying hand and tongue in a little field by the three cross-roads, where gaffers and gammers of by-gone time had set up troughs of proven wood, and the bilge of a long storm-beaten boat, near a pool of softish water.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • I feel in Hamlet, as so often in Shakespeare, that I am in the presence of a soul lingering on the storm-beaten threshold of sanctity.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I feel in Hamlet, as so often in Shakespeare, that I am in the presence of a soul lingering on the storm-beaten threshold of sanctity.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I feel in Hamlet, as so often in Shakespeare, that I am in the presence of a soul lingering on the storm-beaten threshold of sanctity.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I feel in Hamlet, as so often in Shakespeare, that I am in the presence of a soul lingering on the storm-beaten threshold of sanctity.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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