How to use "battered" in a sentence

And some of you have come from areas where your quest - quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality

The boy had been battered, burned, frozen, horribly mutilated in the crash, dead beyond any shadow of a doubt

Elliot wondered how Tom would have reacted if they had shrieked into his garage in an old battered Chevy.