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Sentence Examples The frantic battering of the fireflies and the dull click of the demon's hooves sounded like thunder against the heavy, dead air. However, his smug self-confidence took a battering when Tudor won the Rounders. It included 100 foot battering rams and 150 foot high siege towers with bridges. Tense minutes passed as the sound of rams battering against the main gate began to ring throughout the valley. As I pulled up in the car park, a wasp launched itself at the windscreen and kept repeatedly battering itself against the glass. Your woofers and tweeters better be in pretty good shape to take this kind of battering, I can tell you. The leader does surround himself with lapdogs and sidekicks, people who have been involved in attempted rape, paedophilia, wife battering. John undid the latch and opened the door as if he were breaking in, using his shoulder like a battering ram. On the lower right hand corner of your screen is the latest radar as Dennis is battering now Cuba's south-central coast. Last year, it gave up 43 sacks, subjecting quarterbacks Patrick Ramsey and Tim Hasselbeck to a horrid battering. Meanwhile, athlete testimony and insider tell-alls continue to surface, further battering cycling's troubled image. The fronds of dabberlocks are often eroded by the savage battering they take from storms. In the seventh and eighth rounds, Norton was beating and battering Ali all over the ring. For five years little children have been subject to abuse, neglect and battering. It is very sad that even at this stage of supposed development there are cases such as wife battering. I spend most of my academic life researching the phenomenon of violence against women, specifically battering. A Senior Government official in Nakonde has called on men to stop battering their wives and instead bring peace in their homes. A woman found dead in a suspected mercy killing had served time for battering a 22-month-old child. A group dedicated to helping husbands stop battering their wives has re-opened its helpline. A cook has been charged with battering his wife to death during an argument in which he accused her of infidelity. Show More Sentences There is no dearth of cases of wife battering victimizing women who have made a mark in their professions. Raising consciousness about violence against women, rape and battering became prosecuted crimes. Blackpool's play-off hopes took a battering in a miserable midweek defeat at Bloomfield Road. Last weekend the Beattie Government took a battering at the polls, losing two crucial by-elections. Some of her closest relationships, most notably with her son and her loyal, self-sacrificing assistant, took a battering. Last night in Braehead, everyone's eardrums took a battering from the raucous, but well behaved crowd which almost filled the arena. Care home provision in North Yorkshire took a battering today when another two nursing homes announced they were to close their doors. When the Reserve Bank acted and lifted rates in March, consumer sentiment took a battering, falling 16.6 per cent. The Australian sharemarket took a battering today, falling almost one per cent, as the price of crude oil surged to a new record high. She had been on an upward curve, but had suddenly reached a plateau in her performances, and her confidence took a battering. Australia hopes to attack England's spirit, which took a battering after the first Test defeat. Jamie Dobb endured a disappointing race at the French Grand Prix as his World 250 cc Motorcross Championship hopes took a battering. Officers convinced he was at home used a metal battering ram to break the door down. Some large trucks are fitted with battering rams, the better to plow through roadblocks that attempt to halt a convoy in an ambush. The mob uprooted a street lamp and used it as battering ram to smash in the doors. I saw the police come out with battering rams, but they couldn't get through the front door so the fire brigade went round the back. The joiner eventually borrowed the police battering ram and forced the door open. The raid happened shortly after 1pm when police officers carrying battering rams dashed from a nearby car park to the door of the house. Shortly before 4 p.m. police used a battering ram to break down the front door of the home. A close cousin to humour as a political battering ram is comedy designed to break taboos. Show More Sentences After about thirty seconds, the first two officers in the line used a battering ram to knock down the door. It is thought the passengers may have used a trolley as a battering ram to break down the cockpit door. She uses shame like a battering ram that breaks down his self belief and confidence. It is dramatic, extreme, a battering ram to bust down a door that will not open. Within seconds one of them had fitted a hydraulic jack to the door frame while another began to slam it with a battering ram. As part of the operation, 11 detectives used a battering ram to smash down the front door of the Keswick Street house at 7.30 am. Members of the Armed Response Unit used an enforcer battering ram to smash through the door. I don't know anyone who could have taken the battering, the slagging that this man has taken. That's not to say that Chinese companies have not taken a battering because of the global slowdown. There is only so much battering, criticism and friendlessness any institution can take before it breaks. Heavyweight boxers usually slump into an exhausted embrace after battering each other for 15 bruising rounds. Technology stocks took a fresh battering after a spate of US profit warnings spread gloom across world financial markets. I think the issue of file-sharing requires something of a public relations offensive, not a legal battering. Pulling his fist back in a massive haymaker, he shot his arm forward with the force of a battering ram. They were besieged by opposing armies using towers, battering rams, catapults, and flame weapons. In June 1996, Horrocks was cautioned for battering down a neighbour's door because he thought the music was too loud. But hoki has characteristics almost better suited to crispy deep fried battering. On bad days, and there have been plenty, Nicki would express herself by battering people. But for more than 15 years they have often given the town's posties a bit of a battering with vaguely addressed postcards. Police are replacing the battering ram with the more covert ways of catching the dealers. Show More Sentences As a nation of tea and coffee drinkers, our teeth take a battering and frequently end up stained or discoloured. Another large weapon of siege was used primarily in storms, the battering ram. 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. I assure you, no matter how high the wall, or how cold the siege, in the end all my battles have ended with the battering ram breaking through the main gate. The doors are of metal-reinforced hard wood, built to withstand fire and battering rams, and were intended to serve as the palace occupants' last defense. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. Two teams of officers, some clad in protective gear, used a battering ram to break down the back door, while another team went in through the front. The now ageing boat took a heavy battering struggling into head winds in the Red Sea, and, after coming close to foundering, limped into an Egyptian marina. 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 huge, panoramic windows looked out onto a stormy cloudscape, rain battering at the glass and sending muted thunder rumbling constantly round the utilitarian bridge. She tolerated her more sociable brother with a grace that alternated between good and ill, occasionally battering him with an outstretched paw to keep him in his place. 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. The battering ram crashed rhythmically against the doors, and as the pins slid out one by one, the doors weakened and groaned in their hinged sockets. They're not afraid to discuss tough social topics like wife battering, bride burnings, child abuse or the fact that Indian girls have the highest suicide rate. Show More Sentences 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. 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. The name's the same but the fearsome reputation has taken a battering. Gender-linked violence, including rape and sexual assault, incest, wife battering, and sexual harassment, has generated intense research activity. 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 those hopes took a battering whenever Dwyer's name popped up. 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. 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. But after the battering that it has taken this week, it is as plain as a pikestaff that most observers will be lining up with the Department of Finance on this one. One could picture catapults and trebuchets, battering rams and siege towers. Hospital staff and police believe that concrete bollards were loaded into a shopping trolley and used as a battering ram on the cars and some windows. 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. Maybe it will require the U.S. military having enough time to restore itself after the battering of the last decade. But, also, such pulse-pounding adventure is a battering ram against the central bulwark of a civilized society. In the photo you'll notice that an item of clothing had been torn from the washing line in the strong wind and rain that's been battering us since yesterday. Below, the reinforced gates were suffering a battering from a siege ram. 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. 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. Clearly warfare conducted through massive land armies, battering rams, javelins and slingshots has little technically in common with warfare today. These potential shortcomings may have resulted in a more limited grasp of the relationship between ruralness, battering, and policing. Show More Sentences Whacked-out monsters litter the liner at every turn, looking great in 3D, and take a fair old battering before giving up the ghost. Without other particles battering the instruments, we hope to pinpoint Wimps. They came to blows after arriving with O'Leary grabbing a large spade-shaped pneumatic drill bit and battering Mr Bentley to death. Trainer Angelo Dundee stopped the fight in the 11th to end a battering many consider contributed to Ali's Parkinsonism. For those not in the know, happy slapping is the name given to neds battering folk and filming it for other folk to watch. She was then given a further battering by the taxman who demanded thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. As it is everywhere else in Britain, tourism in Pembrokeshire is currently taking a battering. Mark Forster, 41, accused of battering Roland Carmagnole, 27, to death in 1987, was acquitted of murder by a Liverpool crown court jury. 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. The church tower received a battering during the Siege of Newcastle by the Scots who finally breached the Town Wall and forced surrender. This is thought to originate from the practice of carving a leopard head as a motif on the head of the log used as a battering ram. The gatehouse contained a series of defences to make a direct assault more difficult than battering down a simple gate. Staggered, Ritchie was laid open to a battering, but stayed on his feet until the end of the fight. Boss Gerry Francis sent a scratch team to Germany and suffered an eightgoal battering. One with a pistol strapped to his hip swings a battering ram into a door. Tonight, he was a battering ram whenever anyone tried to interrupt him. A battering for China's export-driven economy has badly dented sales at premium producers like Wuliangye and Maotai. At a house in Saxon Green, Escomb officers used battering rams to smash down the doors of other properties while sniffer dogs were used to search for drugs. Mark Forster, 41, was accused of battering 27-year-old Roland Carmagnole to death in 1987, but was cleared of murder by a Liverpool Crown Court jury. A crescendo of whirring feedback was broken by a battering ram guitar riff as the Welsh trio kicked-off with a thunderous version of new single Cholla. Show More Sentences DeBrum demanded new commitment and international leadership to stave off further climate disasters from battering his country and other similarly vulnerable countries. Packing winds of up to 162 kilometres per hour, the typhoon barrelled in to the smaller western island of Shikoku earlier Sunday, with huge waves battering the coast. Whacked-out monsters litter the liner at every turn, looking fiendishly and deathly great in 3D, and take a fair old battering before giving up the ghost. Richard Monteith, who was eventually found guilty of battering and strangling the 63-year-old, made the assassin allegation from the dock as he stood trial. Next, it is quite possible the Soviets did themselves more harm than good by their fruitless battering of German lines in hasty counteroffensives. Examples from Classical Literature Had I had anything to use as a battering ram, I would have begun on the door. Another was the battering ram for making breaches in the walls of fortresses. Did you build your houses for destruction by fire, and your walls for the battering ram? Then they kept on battering at him with their fists till he fell to the floor. They was talkative, and battering at the hatch with an ax, so I'd hardly a word in edgeways. Again and again she flung herself at it like a battering ram. A broken dagger board, rudder and forestay were testament to the battering she had taken at sea. Deeper in the forest the battering of the rain was mitigated. He charged the cattle around him, driving them back like a battering ram. His face was not much the worse for its battering on the rocks. The tortoise of the battering ram was constructed in the same way. It sees itself serving two functions acting as the collecting agent for foreign banks, and as a battering ram for new foreign investors. Modern rugby players might as well be army personnel as they risk life and limb to penetrate seemingly impenetrable battering rams. It seemed a wonder that the dugong could stand so much battering. Dalloway's door, knocked, could not be heard for the slamming of doors and the battering of wind, and entered. I feel some one breaking my bones and battering out my brains. Then was heard the din of battle about the gates of Calydon, and the dull thump of the battering against their walls. She saw the sinewy form leap to the shoulder of the lion, hurtling against the leaping beast like a huge, animate battering ram. The prisoner broke the chair, which was too heavy for him to lift, and made use of it as a battering ram to strike against the door. They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. Show More Sentences Like a battering ram, this king-post could be driven end-onward against the mighty red-iridescent sphere. It was the battering ram of the ancients hurled by infinite strength. Heavy cannon, for battering the British fortifications, were much wanted. The battering left the two 15-year-old schoolgirls with numerous injuries, including a perforated ear drum, black eyes and bruises, Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard. While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the shoulders, and slews me round. League Chief Executive Neil Juggins fears this season's campaign will have to be extended well beyond the current deadline as fixtures took another battering. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of battering? Words that rhyme with battering What is the plural of battering? What is the adverb for battering? What is the adjective for battering? What is the noun for battering? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words batteries batterie batterer battered batter battens battering ram battering-ram batters Battersea battery battery-operated 9-letter Words Starting With b ba bat batt batte batter batteri batterin