How To Use Buffeted In A Sentence

The body was buffeted about in the waves.
The village has been buffeted by mudflows, landslides, river debris, flooding and earthquakes.
Wind buffeted her, chapping her lips and slowing her crawl.
The aircraft dived as it was buffeted by turbulence at 34,000 ft, lifting passengers high out of their seats and leaving them in fear of their lives.
Nato is being buffeted by destabilising forces from within and without. Times, Sunday Times

It's beautiful in summer, he says, but not quite so today, the back of the house buffeted by howling winds and Biblical rains coming in across the river.
She has buffeted about from pillar to post for ten years.
But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts: it is in the south-east and in the services sector.
Perhaps bond yields are signaling an economic slowdown, but it appears more like they are being buffeted by financial instability.
I walked from the valley below to both of the fog-free summits, buffeted by ocean winds.
He was carefully conveyed to the boat; the _Osprey_ was safely beached, high and dry, and loaded with stones to prevent her being buffeted by the winds again, until such time as she could be removed; and the boys, with lightened hearts, scrambled into the haaf-boat, carrying with them all their campaigning effects. Viking Boys
Then the prime minister's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog.
The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
Mr Farline said: ‘When we got there we saw a lady on a bodyboard and we saw a girl to the south of her getting buffeted by the breaking sea.’
They flew from the southeast toward northeast, buffeted lightly by some crabbing winds.
I had not fully declared these words, when as behold all the servants of the house were assembled with weapons to drive me away, one buffeted me about the face, another about the shoulders, some strook me in the sides, some kicked me, and some tare my garments, and so I was handled amongst them and driven from the house, as the proud young man The Golden Asse
An immigrant buffeted by war and with little formal education, he learnt his trade as an intern before marching out on his own as a photojournalist.
Arthur Ashe Stadium is deluged by rain and buffeted by gale force winds. Times, Sunday Times
We get buffeted through life like a ball-bearing in a bagatelle, bouncing off chance encounters, opportunities, unforeseen obstacles.
The country is buffeted by oligarchs and their nets of businesses. Times, Sunday Times
“It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan. Discourse.net: Shadows on Plato's Cave: Giant Hologram Version
Tears were ripped from her eyes as she was buffeted by the blast.
The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft.
The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
As you might expect, the path is exposed to the elements; sometimes it is blessed by sun and clear skies while the rest of the peninsula is in rain, and at other times it is buffeted by strong winds and rain coming in from the sea.
BP's stock gyrated similarly last year, buffeted by everything from bad weather to robotic snafus on the sea-bed, not to mention a steady drip-feed of comments from politicians and clean-up officials. BP's Parallel With Japan Crisis
He took plenty of hard knocks and got up to give plenty of hard knocks, took a good pack mark, buffeted Richardson out of position in marking duels, punched the ball clear and is a stylish left foot kick.
However, the flagship was soon buffeted by very heavy seas, and began taking on water.
The world has been buffeted by waves of terror that have traumatised Eastern as well as Western societies.
They are weaker than cosmic and galactic rays, and tend to get buffeted around like clouds of manic dandelion spores on the solar wind.
Noise pollution is insidious says actor Randy Hughson, who brings his portrayal of Doyle, a man buffeted by incessant noise, to the Magnetic North Festival.
Nonetheless, the economy continues to be buffeted by strong cross-currents.
They had, then, to anchor the pylons supporting the cables on rocks frozen under deep drifts of snow, working in freezing temperatures, buffeted by needle sharp winds.
Winds buffeted the tent
Many people are in acute difficulty who have worked hard yet find themselves buffeted by financial forces outside their control. Times, Sunday Times
It is time to recognize the historical wind shifts and realign our forces or be buffeted by them.
BP's stock gyrated similarly last year, buffeted by everything from bad weather to robotic snafus on the sea-bed, not to mention a steady drip-feed of comments from politicians and clean-up officials. BP's Parallel With Japan Crisis
In the winter of 1972 while staying in the Circuit House at Saharsa I happened to see the then Chief Minister being buffeted and abused by an angry crowd of legislators and politicians.
Jumped on the 8:36 to Cannon Street, got buffeted and barged by all the commuters and knocked off balance by the big backpack on me.
If the pound's mid-Atlantic pattern continues - being buffeted by waves from Europe and North America but not moving much - there will be little to worry about.
Strong gusts of wind buffeted the Messerschmitt and the captain missed his target.
He wants to learn how the peregrine does it, how a bird can fly hundreds of miles a day, feeding sporadically and buffeted by uncooperative winds.
The boxer buffeted his opponent about the head.
That still leaves BYD's shares down 22% this year, the stock "buffeted" by signs of sluggish sales for its conventional gas-fueled cars. Overheard: Bullish on Buddha
White feathered wings buffeted him aside, the silver-white dragon looking down on him with a slightly distant expression.
Invariably, we were buffeted by a stiff wind which left you red-faced but invigorated.
I was beaten and buffeted, smashed under by the great San Pablo whitecaps, and strangled by the hollow tide-rip waves which flung themselves into my eyes, nose, and mouth. DEMETRIOS CONTOS
The sidewalk is narrow and the pedestrian is buffeted on one side by traffic, on the other by the proximity of the plunge and the meagre hip-height railing.
Nato is being buffeted by destabilising forces from within and without. Times, Sunday Times
Many people are in acute difficulty who have worked hard yet find themselves buffeted by financial forces outside their control. Times, Sunday Times
The understudies start by reading from books, but by the magic of theatre these are soon dropped, and the play takes over, its passage buffeted by the mayhem going on all around it.
You probably think you're sweet and kind and being buffeted by the storms of love. Times, Sunday Times
As it rocketed past over our heads, the slipstream buffeted us.
We were expecting to step outside at the end of the evening and be buffeted by high winds and soaked by torrential rain.
The gale that had buffeted Emal earlier in the week had died down to a light but bitter wind out of the northwest, with but a hint of the iron-acridness of the Aerlal Plateau. Darkness
'Bah!' said the sailor; 'when you have buffeted as many of the storms of life as I have, you will learn that gratitude is rarely found on earth -- least of all in such a brutified nature as that fellow's. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
` ` Like enough, after the wretches had buried the chest and killed the poor black man, they were so buffeted and bowsed about by the storm that it was shook out of the man's pocket, and thus blew away from him without his knowing aught of it. '' Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
Buffeted by market forces and unmoored by the American Institute of Architects' inability to set and enforce professional fee guidelines (thanks to antitrust laws), architects have no dock in this storm.
She sailed in an age of Titans, while the caravel was a frolicksome pygmy, dancing to the music of a thousand winds, buffeted today, becalmed tomorrow, but always a snail on the face of the waters. West Wind Drift
With nearly all the low handicappers struggling over the Nick Faldo designed Ban Chan layout, which was suffering from a lack of mowing on the greens and buffeted by high winds, it was left to the middle rankers to take the honours on the day.
Their personal relationship is buffeted by the external and public events of the play - identity, community, multiculturalism and the hold of a community over its members.
CHICAGO — Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades. Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago
An image of my middy blouse hanging alone on the clotheslines outside our kitchen window, buffeted by the wind, came to mind.
The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated. St. Elmo
When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick.
CHICAGO mdash; Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois ... Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago
On occasions, our plane would be buffeted from the turbulence caused by the planes ahead of us. Biography of John G. Thiel Sgt, Radio Operator/Gunner, B-24, 576th Sqdn
We rope the house to trees along the shore to prevent it from drifting away when we are buffeted by strong winds during the area's frequent tempests.
Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms.
Many people are in acute difficulty who have worked hard yet find themselves buffeted by financial forces outside their control. Times, Sunday Times
As an entrepreneur, it is inevitable that you will be buffeted from side to side as you experience the roller coaster.
The brown kurrajong (COMMERSONIA ECHINATA) exhibits it even more conspicuously, and, when the dusty white flowers — displayed in almost horizontal planes — are buffeted by the winds and the white undersides of the leaves are revealed, the whole style of the tree is transformed as a demure damsel is by tempestuous petticoats. Tropic Days
Perhaps Charles was right, for surely Paul was single-hearted in his hope of walking straight to his one home, Heaven, and he had been doing no other than bearing his cross, when he so patiently took the being 'buffeted' when he did well, and faithfully served his froward master. Friarswood Post Office
Between the two, we are buffeted by profit, partisanship and passions.
The country is buffeted by oligarchs and their nets of businesses. Times, Sunday Times
The little boat was buffeted mercilessly by the waves.
The county has been adrift and buffeted since the break-up of the team of the past decade and now they are gasping for air.
The wind buffeted him
Yet if you're not like that, you just get buffeted around. Times, Sunday Times
So Paul's master before him was "buffeted" as a slave, when about to die a slave's death (Mt Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It was so dark they could not see each other as their tree was buffeted by strong winds caused by Cyclone Debbie.
The two figures stumbled across the dunes, buffeted by the wind and sand.
The poll was one of a dozen commissioned by the Capitol newspaper in battleground races, and it contained just the latest signs of trouble for Dahlkemper, a freshman buffeted by a poor political climate and her vote in favor of the health care overhaul. Kelly up 13 points in new poll
Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms.
The blustrous winds of an unusually bitter March had buffeted Mr. Sheldon in the streets of his native town, and had almost blown him off the door-steps of his kindred. Birds of Prey
Brazil has also been buffeted by the huge social and economic crisis in neighbouring Argentina - a crisis that led to last December's uprising there.
When she is buffeted by weather the rich inner color comes through her skin, and the brightest dayshine can do nothing against the dusk of her eyes. The Lady of Fort St. John
In winter the island is buffeted by arctic winds, and in early summer the north coast is battered by icebergs floating down from Greenland.
The boxer buffeted his opponent about the head.
But it would take a powerful insect, or a very brave bird, to pollinate the plants that cling to exposed slopes, consistently buffeted by thirty-mile-an-hour winds.
Or they were tormented souls, buffeted by external dilemmas and prior vulnerabilities.
In one you hit something hard, as a boat is buffeted at sea. Times, Sunday Times
The Seminole shook as she was buffeted by the two explosions and alarms announced more hull breaches and damage.
We sat down and were at once buffeted with food and drink. The Crossing-Place
In one you hit something hard, as a boat is buffeted at sea. Times, Sunday Times
Lawns are freshly mown, paintwork touched up, tiles buffeted by winter storms shoved back into line.
We sat down and were at once buffeted with food and drink. The Crossing-Place
Nato is being buffeted by destabilising forces from within and without. Times, Sunday Times
They flew from the southeast toward northeast, buffeted lightly by some crabbing winds.
The winds buffeted the houses, slates blew off roofs and cannonaded against roads or windows in their path.
a soul nor return a reply; and reaching the garden and sitting down in cark and care he threw dust on his head and buffeted his cheeks. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Storm whips up from the Antarctic and joggers pound along a waterfront buffeted by wind.
In fact, it was only by a capricious and wondrous synchronicity that the two individuals there on the strand, buffeted by the Gaelic wind, knew each other at all, brought together by a coincidence of events that pivoted entirely upon the very humble Liparis liparis, otherwise known as the common sea snail. Soul
The international order is like a mighty river and our region is but a small boat buffeted by angry waves.
Yet if you're not like that, you just get buffeted around. Times, Sunday Times
She has buffeted about from pillar to post for ten years.
Then the prime minister's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog.
In one you hit something hard, as a boat is buffeted at sea. Times, Sunday Times
But she was again buffeted away, as helpless as a dandelion seed.
Local businesses have been buffeted by the troubled economy.
We were buffeted by the wind and the rain.
Veterans from across the United States returned to find Bastogne covered in snow and buffeted by biting winds - just as it was during that bitterly cold December of 1944.
The country is buffeted by oligarchs and their nets of businesses. Times, Sunday Times
Arthur Ashe Stadium is deluged by rain and buffeted by gale force winds. Times, Sunday Times
You've got to have a game in your head, you have to have a strategy and you have to know what the points are on the horizon because you get quickly buffeted to run off in tangential ways.
Buffeted by scorn, hated, reviled, he nurses his own hatred, seeking refuge in the thickets of the Law, because true justice has eluded him.
The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft.
The tannery is the latest signal of the digital economy's expansion into Kitchener Centre - a blue-collar riding buffeted by the decline in traditional manufacturing - from its much wealthier neighbour, the riding of Kitchener-Waterloo, home to global tech giant Research In Motion and the University of Waterloo. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Then all the young men tucked up their sleeves to the elbows and fell a-weeping and wailing and they blackened their faces and smeared their clothes and buffeted their brows and beat their breasts, continually exclaiming, ‘We were sitting at our ease, but our frowardness brought us unease!’
He buffeted his way past several rope moorings.
Rational players do not just automatically use one model and investors, in the real world, differ in approach, self-interest and interpretative emphasis; they recognize that their information is imperfect and that they are constantly buffeted by what Frydman and Goldberg call "nonroutine" change, such as innovations, perturbations of the Zeitgeist or, for that matter, revolutions and earthquakes. Robert Teitelman: Frydman and Goldberg's Beyond Mechanical Markets
We rope the house to trees along the shore to prevent it from drifting away when we are buffeted by strong winds during the area's frequent tempests.
Arthur Ashe Stadium is deluged by rain and buffeted by gale force winds. Times, Sunday Times
But didn't Greene really mean this thriller/romance to be yet another of his expositions on the emotional frailty of men buffeted by love and betrayal?
The ferry was traveling from Puerto Galera to Batangas City on Luzon Island when it was buffeted by large waves and strong winds around 7 a.m.
Fifty years ago on October 26 black clouds swirled over the mouth of the Firth of Tay as the east coast of Scotland was buffeted by fierce winds.
For patrons of the Sporting Beach Club in Ostia, where forlorn lines of changing rooms that once stood 150 metres back from the sea are now buffeted by waves, the new sand cannot arrive soon enough. Italy's elite are dismayed by vanishing beaches
There's something about her on-screen bearing that invites tragedy, her characters are relentlessly buffeted by ill-fortune.
Nonetheless, the economy continues to be buffeted by strong cross-currents.
Lumpsuckers and clingfishes have sucker attachments that help them hang on to rocks so they aren't buffeted by the waves.
From words they passed to blows; the bedell and vergers tried to keep order, but "were buffeted and stricken," [339] and the meeting broke up in wild uproar and confusion. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
Buffeted by violent economic crises and challenged by powerful socialist movements that seemed everywhere on the move, the system often seemed to totter.
Amazingly you don't get buffeted by the wind even when you drive fast.
It pattered hard against the seaward windows of the hotel and swept into the horde of steam launches that buffeted with the rather boisterous sea.
Yet if you're not like that, you just get buffeted around. Times, Sunday Times
We were buffeted by the wind and the rain.
We sat down and were at once buffeted with food and drink. The Crossing-Place
In September 1897, buffeted by personal and professional difficulties, as well as conflicts with leading German feminists, she entered a mental hospital.
Over the last few weeks, Gilbert has been buffeted from all sides by furious investors, politicians, analysts, the media, other fund managers and industry regulators.

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