Use "battering" in a sentence

1. With one man holding me under each armpit I was dragged out of the flat and bumped down the stairs, my shins taking a mother of a battering as they hauled me out into the morning air

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2. After twenty minutes of sheer and utter frustration, and with a nose that was black and blue from battering the cage bars, he finally sat back on the floor and, for the first time in his life, admitted to himself just how long his nose really was

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3. Miss Jones spun around in an anti-clockwise direction when the young man’s shoulder hit her left arm with all the force and momentum of a battering ram

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4. was black and blue from battering the cage bars, he finally sat back

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5. momentum of a battering ram

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6. tapping, it was strongly battering against the

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7. The outer wall trembled from a hundred thousand fists battering its stones

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8. His bones vibrated from the sound of the undead battering the building while the torrent of snarls renewed from the streets

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9. gradually gave way to the pounding of the waves and the battering of the hurricanes, and, in time, the brave ship was no more

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10. ” He turned to take in the room with his red eyes, his long, dark hair billowing in the electrified energy of the storm that was now battering the Temple

11. He used it like a battering ram and took out a few pirates all on his own

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12. Her shoulder ached from the ore car crash, but, between the creature and the twenty guards, he had received a far worse battering than her

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13. battering blows to my body

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14. A force of several hundred Tenocha was battering the door to the palace when it was suddenly flung open and a sheet of

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15. ” I saw fear pass over his face just before I swung my staff, battering him in the side of his head with great force

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16. and build a fort against it, and throw a mound against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about

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17. captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to throw

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18. Mallika was a disease, a battering to his ego

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19. I looked in wonder as I saw the werewolf stumble back slightly at the massive impact, mirroring Adrinius’ expression at the lack of grandeur that we expected from the battering of the beast

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20. He was majestic in every way as he galloped towards my comatose body, and as he came closer, I fell back onto the ground, readying myself no doubt, for his battering

21. If they asked what I’d been doing Monday night, I’d have said battering a man to death

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22. “Better the noise than the battering!” Youssaf replied somewhat tartly as he strained to keep his arms from sagging under the pummeling

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23. Fear and fatigue again gripped everyone as the battering continued

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24. “Better the noise than the battering!” Youssaf replied somewhat tartly as he strained to keep

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25. Corvus braced himself against the door, but instead of the expected battering the bleeding warrior turned and started to limp towards Tress’s door

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26. Of the controlled souls in the east, only the Nordheim mindless ones remained, battering away at the Great Gate

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27. At sunset, the weather took a noticeable turn for the worse and a quick battering from some huge and painful hailstones did nothing to help Athene’s growing desperation to escape

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28. severe battering from the storms, Aruba only sometimes got the very tip of the hurricane’s

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29. At Yoxford we turned left and crossed the A12 and headed up to Dunwich, a small ancient village that was slowly being reclaimed by the battering North Sea

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30. - Physical abuse can include hitting, biting, slapping, battering, shoving, punching (any type of violent behavior inflicted on the victim)

31. When my head broke the surface, all I saw were pieces of the barge battering the base of that stupid rock

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32. The War Room was a large chamber deep in the center of the palace, well protected by heavy walls and barricaded fortress gates spelled with strong rune stones to ward off both battering rams and destruct spells

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33. What worried me more were their battering weapons, they were using them to hit the shield and with each blow, it shook, cracks appearing in its structure

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34. seen, family therapists have analyzed the function of battering both for the batterer and the victim, whom they consider to have an equal stake in perpetuating her own

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35. The door was made to stand the battering of a siege

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36. Evidently it did not open on outer air, yet it was built as if to withstand the battering of mangonels and rams

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37. Don't you understand?" Even as he spoke, angry waves started battering the cruiser with ominous power

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38. �What you got a battering ram on the way then?� asks Barry in a sarcastic voice

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39. At seven fifteen precisely the Sea King’s blades were heard battering the air as it rounded the headland and nudged slowly into position about twenty feet above the train

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40. Not just because of the high water pressure battering his body, but it was also dammed cold

41. The church took a battering, but it was the roof once again, that caught the worst of it

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42. With all her strength Yeltsa rammed her shoulder into the mech, at the same time she grabbed it around the waist and hoisted it off the ground, using it as a battering ram to knock down Cyries and orderrans

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43. There were some who just kept battering our elders with stupid questions

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44. � Her modesty was in for more battering, as the aide-de-camp started reading from a third citation

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45. And out in the bush, our poor old tootsies often come in for a battering

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46. Outside his cabin storms started battering the ship

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47. She typed away on the iPad, battering the keys for about 30 minutes before a

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48. The shock of the icy waves battering his legs nearly drove him back out again, but she spurred him on, squeezing him with her spindly old legs as if he were a carthorse

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49. showed and when the battering on the hull started it was as though a thousand

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50. Before he found a slight overhang to huddle undercover, the rain had felt as if it were battering him, pounding into his skin and getting under his scales

51. His mind was spinning, the humiliation of last night battering his determination to get on with life

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52. His respect for ’law and order’ had taken a battering

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53. The volatile soul supplies the battering things under “gain and wipe” data

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54. sound of the water was not a river as he had hoped, but rather, it was the sound of the ocean’s waves battering the beach

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55. who were prone to battering it, I must still have been

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56. They had a battering ram, made from a tree trunk set on the base of a sturdy cart

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57. to use the truck as a battering ram to penetrate the barn to battle the

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58. Their grass-topped flanks that face the churning water’s flow, History of battering storm and raging cyclone show

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59. Her chest was tight and she was sure he could hear her frantic heart battering against her ribcage

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60. There seems to be a perpetual battering going on at the bulwarks of my character

61. As bundles of newsprint landed on the streets to be gobbled up by workers heading for their offices, the Financial Secretary who had taken a battering in the Legislative Council the previous afternoon sat at a table with his head on his hand, cocked to one side in a weary resigned pose

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62. made her head feel as if her brain were acting as a battering ram on the inside of her cranium

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63. Engines: Battering rams; machines; inventions that are skillfully made into weapons

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64. a terrible storm was battering the island of Saint Helena

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65. Is the sea in England like this?’ and I thought of the channel in the winter, battering against the rocks and cliffs off the Cornwall coast, my village a coast ghost town, the drowning crowds strolling along the front with their ninety nines and fish and chips, the air all cold and wet and the chips greasy and hot and how my stomach turned at the ordinariness of it all, that I craved it, and wanted it but just couldn’t face it

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66. “Hey there, sugar,” she called, battering thick long eyelashes at him

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67. But with volumes of arguments and proofs back of them, them, they become mighty battering rams against that citadel or error

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68. The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce

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69. I guided officiously with my hand this furious battering ram, whose ruby

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70. I could wish, sir, that he would visit the works in open day, and in the form of a storming party; that is the least failing method of proving the countenance of an enemy, and would be far preferable to the battering system he has chosen

71. Slipping then a pillow under me, that I might give him the fairest play, I guided officiously with my hand this furious battering ram, whose ruby head, presenting nearest the resemblance of a heart, I applied to its proper mark, which lay as finely elevated as we could wish; my hips being borne up, and my thighs at their utmost extension, the gleamy warmth that shot from it, made him feel that he was at the mouth of the indraught, and driving fore right, the powerfully divided lips of that pleasure-thirsty channel received him

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72. The engine-driver, running past the Casa Viola with the salute of an uplifted arm, checked his speed smartly before entering the yard; and when the ear-splitting screech of the steam-whistle for the brakes had stopped, a series of hard, battering shocks, mingled with the clanking of chain-couplings, made a tumult of blows and shaken fetters under the vault of the gate

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73. Combined with Stormbird, they were Ahbaht’s mailed fist, his battering ram, designed to open a path for the ships behind them

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74. The little girl sitting at the table was obstinately and violently battering on it with a cork, and staring aimlessly at her mother with her pitchblack eyes

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75. Men would be the size of fruit flies up there, battering themselves against the locked heavens

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76. They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram

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77. I TURNED THE doorknob and, using my hip and shoulder as a battering ram, shoved the door open

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78. Now that it was behind us, I pictured SWAT battering down the red door, the hinges popping, the door lying down like a big red tongue on the floor as a dozen men with shields up and guns drawn stormed the kitchen

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79. The waves of noise are flooding her circuits and battering her memories

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80. Daisy smashed through the old wooden doors of the chapel like a battering ram

81. It was speeding up now, battering her chest like solar wind on a damaged hull

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82. "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door

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83. " They were the reports of the cannon battering the barricade

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84. One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the barricade hardly disturbed the interior

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85. Enjolras fixed the bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes

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86. Under the battering of his arguments the power of Ysobel waned and slowly disappeared

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87. The car rolled along, its pistons battering in the cylinders

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