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.
The whale uses the front of his head as a weapon by battering into the object it is trying to destroy.
The panel took a battering with players out of the country during the league campaign but, so far, everyone has shown strongly in the bid to land a third IFC in ten years.
Under the plans, men and women would be automatically added to a new domestic violence register, available to the police, NHS and social services, if they were convicted of battering their partners.
Clearly warfare conducted through massive land armies, battering rams, javelins and slingshots has little technically in common with warfare today.
The lower half of the peninsula received a substantial battering from a big September hurricane. Silly newbie w/passport & transport needs camping companion
Tech and telecom stocks took a battering yesterday as the FTSE - 100 Index closed nearly 80 points down.
Twice Flandry lay prone and watched combats: bugs swarming over a walking red globe with lobsterish claws; a constrictor shape entangled with a mobile battering ram. A Circus of Hells
Earth from the ditch was piled into a second wall, and in the large No Man's Land which existed inside these siegeworks no tree or object tall enough to serve as a battering ram was left standing. Fortune's Favorites
The player can use catapults, battering rams, ballistas and ancient ‘elevators’.
In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
I have lived without forethought or arrière pensée -- without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess of precautions, 'and then he turned to me -- his eyes were half shut and his voice was muffled as if a flood were battering on the door of his dispassionateness,' I have had everything in life except you, 'he said. Balloons
Your woofers and tweeters better be in pretty good shape to take this kind of battering, I can tell you.
But hoki has characteristics almost better suited to crispy deep fried battering.
The name's the same but the fearsome reputation has taken a battering.
But go back a few centuries, and you will see that those English took a battering from the Romans, the Danes, the Norsemen, and the Normans. Letters to the Editor
In fact, only the gaming industry took a battering as far as IT was concerned with the emergency budget. Computing
Was I (horrors) the pathetically unfit nonathlete battering himself against a force of nature that can pulverize rock into sand, sink impregnable ocean liners and swallow late-thirtyish guys like me for breakfast? Surf's Up!
For five years little children have been subject to abuse, neglect and battering.
Even those which did stay for any length of time had to survive batterings, groundings and the ravages of the Great Storm of 1869, which pulled ships from their moorings and pitched the Humber into chaos.
Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women.
Heworth's push for promotion took a battering as National Conference League division two leaders Hunslet Warriors gave a great second half show to beat them 46-0.
The one-man battering ram's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country. Times, Sunday Times
I find it somewhat aggravating that your constant complaints that I am battering straw men doesn't stop you from simply ascribing a political moderateness that I have neither shown nor hold; your sensitivity to misrepresentation evidently does not run in more than one direction. OCD
The one-man battering ram 's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country. Times, Sunday Times
That's not to say that Chinese companies have not taken a battering because of the global slowdown.
As a nation of tea and coffee drinkers, our teeth take a battering and frequently end up stained or discoloured.
This will be welcomed by millions of the poorest who faced a battering. The Sun
The west-facing side is most exposed to the battering winds that occasionally sweep across the fields with not much of a windbreak nearby.
There's someone battering at the door.
The one-man battering ram's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country. Times, Sunday Times
John undid the latch and opened the door as if he were breaking in, using his shoulder like a battering ram.
Sonsona who decided to move up two weight divisions told us he expects a "very competitive fight" when he meets undefeated Vazquez Jr for the WBO super bantamweight title relinquished by Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez who moved up to featherweight and won the title with a battering of Steven Luevano. PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed
Much hullabaloo has been made of independent internet sites and bloggers scooping the mainstream media in breaking stories and battering it to death with fact checking.
Real would love to steal some of those customers away, and " the battering ram is Beckham.
The cultural and intellectual challenges began because brawn without brain is a useful battering ram, but a useless leader. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time executive salaries took a battering.
Personally, I have always preferred the term heterosexist for things like the rape-is-not-about-sex position, because its relationship to the term sexism reflects its investment in male dominance, while heterocentric has always seemed more appropriate for things like the point about battering because it is talking more about a point of view rather than a desire to perpetuate male dominant ideology. Link Farm and Open Thread #11
Experts also use the term "battering and its effects" to describe the mental and emotional state of women who have experienced years of systematic abuse, and a report by the Justice Department lists factors in a woman's reluctance to leave an abusive relationship: "a lack of economic and other tangible resources, fear of retaliation, and emotional attachment. Catherine Epstein: Fairness for Defendants Who Survive Domestic Violence
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. Spanking: Discipline or Abuse? « Colleen Anderson
Heavy sheets of water were battering the pavements.
However, his smug self-confidence took a battering when Tudor won the Rounders.
A group dedicated to helping husbands stop battering their wives has re-opened its helpline.
Like the palooka who pulls himself up off the canvas after each knockdown, the dedicated employee is expected never to waver, no matter what battering he takes.
Never have I driven in such a wind, for a large part until the route brings one into Newcastle city the road is unsheltered from the sea and we took a sustained battering from heavy sidewinds.
At times he must have felt like he was battering his head against a brick wall. The Sun
In some cases, the woman's fatal response occurs during a period of relative calm in the violence such as after a battering incident has already occurred.
My GOH liaison, the lovely Laura, came to the con with a cage of bats, which was pretty cool as well, and I met a couple of readers from Bulgaria who told me that in my Bulgarian editions, "battering ram" is translated with the word for a male sheep. Back from Indianapolis
The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
The worst thing, we agreed, was putting on the oilskins in such conditions, whether on a fishing boat or a yacht heeled well over and battering her way into a difficult sea.
This raises the possibility that the battering in Killer may even have been semi-hallucinated by Ford. Erica Abeel: The Killer Inside Me : Can Battering Women Be Entertainment?
Actually it is concerned with Hamlet's mother: Hamlet's battering leaves her overwhelmed by a realization of her depravity.
Below, the reinforced gates were suffering a battering from a siege ram.
Last night in Braehead, everyone's eardrums took a battering from the raucous, but well behaved crowd which almost filled the arena.
The battering rams and mangonels would be ready in a few days.
Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it.
The film took a battering from critics in the US.
It entered her aching head like an entity, battering against her brain. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Before dawn broke on Tuesday, drug crime suspects had a rude awakening as officers with battering rams smashed down doors around the town in an operation to target dealers.
Last year, it gave up 43 sacks, subjecting quarterbacks Patrick Ramsey and Tim Hasselbeck to a horrid battering.
But for more than 15 years they have often given the town's posties a bit of a battering with vaguely addressed postcards.
The last battering engines are philters, amulets, spells, charms, images, and such unlawful means: if they cannot prevail of themselves by the help of bawds, panders, and their adherents, they will fly for succour to the devil himself. Anatomy of Melancholy
Instead some use them as battering rams in their war with the other half. The Sun
Blackpool's play-off hopes took a battering in a miserable midweek defeat at Bloomfield Road.
But those hopes took a battering whenever Dwyer's name popped up.
More frighteningly, Tamora could see the hundreds more beyond the few battering the gate, and over a third of them were properly armed - swords, dirks, bows and arrows.
Australia hopes to attack England's spirit, which took a battering after the first Test defeat.
She had been on an upward curve, but had suddenly reached a plateau in her performances, and her confidence took a battering.
In the seventh and eighth rounds, Norton was beating and battering Ali all over the ring.
Hong Kong-listed mainland car stocks took a battering yesterday as investors reacted negatively to reports that mainland car owners had defaulted on billions of yuan worth of loans last year.
Leaving the relationship does not mean that the battering will stop.
worldwide stock markets have taken a battering
Eugenie Allen says Leslie "doesn't do this loaded issue justice, '' because she" uses a battering ram '' to make her points, and so The Feminine Mistake is "unwieldy" and "polarizing. Jeremy Gerard: You Say Mystique, I Say Mistake
Throw in battering ram Earl Campbell and the sweet moves of Gale Sayers and this quintet boasts speed, power, elusiveness, receiving skills and game-breaking ability at every turn. The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final
Your woofers and tweeters better be in pretty good shape to take this kind of battering, I can tell you.
When a team have had a battering, you don't look for spirit, or resilience, or bouncebackability, or even defiance. Times, Sunday Times
Last weekend the Beattie Government took a battering at the polls, losing two crucial by-elections.
Police used teargas and a battering ram to try to gain access. Times, Sunday Times
A woman found dead in a suspected mercy killing had served time for battering a 22-month-old child.
With the elemental forces of nature battering away at them, Molesey and Dulwich Hamlet put on a show of football that was at times breathtaking given the rain and wind that lashed Molesey Park Stadium.
Cryel's high emotional walls had barely stood against the battering they had received in the day and now they burned away in the heat of his anger.
The apes battering an ape to death at the waterhole prefigures a scene when Alex and his droogs beat up a bum in an alley with clubs.
A Senior Government official in Nakonde has called on men to stop battering their wives and instead bring peace in their homes.
Heavyweight boxers usually slump into an exhausted embrace after battering each other for 15 bruising rounds.
The Auckland pair face charges of battering their 13-year-old son with a cordless telephone, an electric jug cord, a plank of wood, an extension cord, a broomstick handle and a rubber jandal. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
They pointed out that recently, because of deficient psychological adjustment after divorce, child battering and children's roaming have been aggravated in the province.
The worst thing, we agreed, was putting on the oilskins in such conditions, whether on a fishing boat or a yacht heeled well over and battering her way into a difficult sea.
Tense minutes passed as the sound of rams battering against the main gate began to ring throughout the valley.
The lifeboat crew helped to anchor the vessel so it would withstand the battering of the waves until it was ready to be refloated, and transferred the passengers and crew to safety.
I spend most of my academic life researching the phenomenon of violence against women, specifically battering.
But its shares took a battering because rail was seen as something of a saviour at a time when other parts of the business were enduring tough trading conditions.
But they gave us a battering, so yeah, we have a chance to go there and get some payback. The Sun
The fronds of dabberlocks are often eroded by the savage battering they take from storms.
It is very sad that even at this stage of supposed development there are cases such as wife battering.
Severe winds have been battering the north coast.
The huge, panoramic windows looked out onto a stormy cloudscape, rain battering at the glass and sending muted thunder rumbling constantly round the utilitarian bridge.
The location is typical of an Amerindian settlement in that it is located on the windward side of the island (a location more difficult for enemy landings due to the constant battering of wind and waves).
Feminists advocate for equality and independence for women, then turn around and expect men to support women in alimony, child custody, the alienation of fathers, and a blind eye to female battering. Subverting Patriarchy: Not just for chicks anymore. « A Bird’s Nest
There was a sudden shaking and rumble of cannons and battering-rams and I saw flames flickering.
Our complacence over sexual abuse took a battering when Mira Nair's ‘Monsoon Wedding’ won the 2002 Venice Golden Lion.
I don't know anyone who could have taken the battering, the slagging that this man has taken.
He was accused of battering his former wife and child.
At times he must have felt like he was battering his head against a brick wall. The Sun
I think the issue of file-sharing requires something of a public relations offensive, not a legal battering.
Gender-linked violence, including rape and sexual assault, incest, wife battering, and sexual harassment, has generated intense research activity.
The sperm present will surround it, battering against its surface and each one weakening the outside layer.
Technology stocks took a fresh battering after a spate of US profit warnings spread gloom across world financial markets.
Care home provision in North Yorkshire took a battering today when another two nursing homes announced they were to close their doors.
Sterling took a battering yesterday as worries grew about the state of Britain's economy.
Leaving the relationship does not mean that the battering will stop.
He was standing in the middle of a storm; rain and wind battering his body.
The action represents a withdrawal of their goodwill after a constant battering of the justice system by the government. Times, Sunday Times
a southerly gale gave the ship another battering
They got a battering ram to smash down the door.
Reyes tells the story, now with a smirk, of constant batterings by admissions officers because of the standardized tests.
That was as good as showing a red flag to a bull, and the woman put her head down and thundered forward like a battering ram, flailing her hooked weapon around.
Why, if you are so sure that spanking/hitting/buttocks battering is okay, would you be bothered by comments to the contrary? kootnygirl´s last blog. .crash A Spanking A Day Keeps Failure Away? | Her Bad Mother
But they gave us a battering, so yeah, we have a chance to go there and get some payback. The Sun
On bad days, and there have been plenty, Nicki would express herself by battering people.
Meanwhile, athlete testimony and insider tell-alls continue to surface, further battering cycling's troubled image.
S. Sconce, call you it? so you would leave battering, I had rather have it a head: an you use these blows long, I must get a sconce for my head and insconce it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders. Act II. Scene II. The Comedy of Errors
Instead some use them as battering rams in their war with the other half. The Sun
When the bombardment failed, Salisbury's men built a testudo or "tortoise," a wheeled covered shed under which his men worked battering rams.
At times he must have felt like he was battering his head against a brick wall. The Sun
The ship took such a battering it had to be abandoned. Christianity Today
They were besieged by opposing armies using towers, battering rams, catapults, and flame weapons.
There's a battering ram of songs; rushing melodies with only enough pause for him to take a drag on an ever-present cigarette.
‘Throughout the auditorium, demoniacs are paired off with exorcism ministers,’ writes Cuneo, who himself rushed help wrestle down a particularly violent demoniac to prevent him from further battering Pastor Mike.
Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the catheads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions - forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women.
By that time I was chilled to the bone, exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic, sullen and depressed.
Meanwhile, Sydney copped a battering of wet and destructive weather but it should be spared from a further drenching, which is expected to hit regional NSW. The Canberra Times - Front Page
As a nation of tea and coffee drinkers, our teeth take a battering and frequently end up stained or discoloured.
He moved in the middle of yet another sweet attack, corkscrewed around a couple of defenders before battering home an unstoppable shot from 20 yards.
Raising consciousness about violence against women, rape and battering became prosecuted crimes.
Jinta, even though I agree with you that all types of violence should be condemned, women battering is often ignored even though it's highly pervasive. When will the violence stop?
Women and children are sexually exploited when they are subjected to incest, rape, sexual harassment, battering, bride trafficking, pornography, and prostitution.
As I pulled up in the car park, a wasp launched itself at the windscreen and kept repeatedly battering itself against the glass.
Even the exotic and charming Worldweb will be reduced to battering viewers with George Lucas-like speeding aircar chases. Dan Simmons' Hyperion To Get The Big Screen Treatment
Some of her closest relationships, most notably with her son and her loyal, self-sacrificing assistant, took a battering.
Sterling took a battering yesterday as worries grew about the state of Britain's economy.
He suggests that in new cases when women go to the police and accuse their partner of battering them, the man will get thrown out of their property, pending an enquiry.
The government said on Monday the typhoon had affected 287,877 acres of farm land out of a total 4.67 million acres, flooding rice paddies and battering fruit and vegetable fields.
Melissa Farley has called the language of sex worker activists and voluntary sex workers, including exotic dancers, "attempts by women in prostitution to retain some shred of dignity" and fallaciously analogizes, "we do not refer to battered women as 'battering workers.' Monica Shores: Prostitution "Experts" Versus Prostitutes: Why Don't All Sex Workers Deserve a Voice?
As a nation of tea and coffee drinkers (not to mention all that heart-healthy red wine), our teeth take a battering and frequently end up stained or discoloured.
Do all these cases of husband battering appear in court?
Jamie Dobb endured a disappointing race at the French Grand Prix as his World 250 cc Motorcross Championship hopes took a battering.
Sterling took a battering yesterday as worries grew about the state of Britain's economy.
Maybeck was fondling the new battering ram, getting a feel for it like a pitcher with a new glove. THE KILL CLAUSE
This will be welcomed by millions of the poorest who faced a battering. The Sun
Whilst the rugged northern coast absorbs a perennial battering from the sea, the southern shoreline is sheltered and calm, with sandy beaches and natural harbours.
The one-man battering ram 's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country. Times, Sunday Times
Pulling his fist back in a massive haymaker, he shot his arm forward with the force of a battering ram.
Police are replacing the battering ram with the more covert ways of catching the dealers.
The external pane needs to withstand the kind of battering any object in orbit can expect: tiny objects at orbital speed are more energetic than a bullet fired from a rifle.
The frantic battering of the fireflies and the dull click of the demon's hooves sounded like thunder against the heavy, dead air.
In the Porter's scene in Act II of "Macbeth," equivocation comes in for a serious rhetorical battering: "Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales and against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. A Blessing—Not a Curse
Her sides are some eighteen inches thick, and sheathed and resheathed with "greenheart" to help her in battering the ice. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
the south of England will take the heaviest battering
St. Augustine's Abbey; and near it, not many years ago, was a fine example of Saxon work, known as Ethelbert's Tower, which some of the intelligent busybodies of the time had removed with a battering-ram. What to See in England
A stern faced agent accompanied by red-coats and bailiffs, complete with battering ram came to a wayside cottage and preceded to evict the poor tenants but not without some stern resistance.
Or if anyone could contrive to return in beggarly disguise after ten years' maritime battering and see off all his swaggering rivals with a deliciously unexpected volte-face, Vick would be your man.
The Australian sharemarket took a battering today, falling almost one per cent, as the price of crude oil surged to a new record high.
Both their bodies were prone in the light battering down on the terrace, the man sweating. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
There's someone battering at the door.
That belief has in all ages proved the very best pavior to anarchy and despotism, or, to use a more strong and emphatic figure, the most efficacious battering-ram against paper bulwarks and constitutional barriers. Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
In July, the police response to incidents took a battering.
Just as when laying siege to a city and battering its walls one digs one's trenches closer and closer and thus slowly gains land, so in the spiritual conquest of that powerful and enchanted [encantado] land God is laying the siegeworks of evangelism, approaching bit by bit until the walls of resistance crash to the ground. How Taiwan Became Chinese
She had been on an upward curve, but had suddenly reached a plateau in her performances, and her confidence took a battering.
I could feel the howling echo of the hospital walls, its hot searing pulses battering against my skull.
John undid the latch and opened the door as if he were breaking in, using his shoulder like a battering ram.
His hands were bloody with battering at it.
Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off. So long, and thanks for all the fish
I could feel the howling echo of the hospital walls, its hot searing pulses battering against my skull.
In June 1996, Horrocks was cautioned for battering down a neighbour's door because he thought the music was too loud.
Testimony to the battering that his body took from falls are metal pins inserted in both arms, plates and screws holding his legs together, and a pronounced limp.
There is no dearth of cases of wife battering victimizing women who have made a mark in their professions.
And here was this meeting -- thousands of workingmen, horny handed blacksmiths, longshoremen with shoulders like barns and truckmen with fists like battering rams, long-haired radicals of a hundred dangerous varieties, women who waved red handkerchiefs and shrieked until to Peter they seemed like gorgons with snakes instead of hair. 100\%: the Story of a Patriot
He was the pick of the performers last season at half-back and stood out as one of the better players in a team that has taken a battering week-in and week-out.
Nico Muhly's score, layering electronic beats, live ensemble and choir, is a tempest in itself, with textures and colours battering against each other in a dissonant blast. Stephen Petronio Company – review
Instead, it's old-fashioned dexterous bombast, headbanging with caution and poise enough to harness wild arpeggios, but never letting a pedigree get in the way of impassioned squawking and battering.
The ship took such a battering it had to be abandoned. Christianity Today
Police used teargas and a battering ram to try to gain access. Times, Sunday Times
He was not tall enough to address his battering-ram at the face of the Corporal, or he might have done mischief to the mazard of the veteran. The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.

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