battering

[ US /ˈbætɝɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bˈætəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of subjecting to strong attack
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How To Use battering In A Sentence

  • In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
  • When the Reserve Bank acted and lifted rates in March, consumer sentiment took a battering, falling 16.6 per cent.
  • Severe winds have been battering the north coast.
  • There was something indescribably grim and bodeful in those isochronal batterings of the solid ground. Joan of Arc of the North Woods
  • Leaving the relationship does not mean that the battering will stop.
  • A cook has been charged with battering his wife to death during an argument in which he accused her of infidelity.
  • We scurried along walls and zig-zagged from floor to floor effortlessly, battering demonic beetles with nunchakus, all to the accompaniment of a sweeping symphonic score.
  • Severe winds have been battering the north coast.
  • He is literally a battering ram with those elbows.
  • Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women.
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