Sentence examples for batter about from inspiring English sources

Add enough milk to make a thick batter about the consistency of sour cream.

When it melts, add just enough batter (about 2 tablespoons) to cover bottom of pan.

Then carefully fold the egg whites into the batter about a third at a time.

Beat together the egg, flour and enough water to make a thick batter (about 175ml), and season.

Slowly add the water until you have a thin, lump-free batter, about the consistency of single cream.

The reason was not immediately known, but seemed to involve suspicions of sign-stealing or tipping the batter about the position of the catcher's glove.

Old-timers may love recounting that baseball was more manly when pitchers knocked batters down for the smallest perceived infractions, yet the golden age of the hit batter began about 1993.

An actress of a certain age, Peil knows what it means to be battered about, and to keep going anyway.

"I do not feel any particular sympathy," he said, in 1903, "for the person who gets battered about a good deal so long as it is not fatal".

Like it or not, we're all going to spend the next six weeks being relentlessly battered about the face by suffocatingly twee Christmas adverts.

Still, Mr Smith can be battered about more than some cabinet ministers because he is neither in the camp of Gordon Brown's or that of Tony Blair.