Sentence examples for batter the bottom from inspiring English sources

The only trouble with making a lot of acquisitions is that they can batter the bottom line.

At the annual meeting yesterday of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's second-largest lender, the chairman, John T. Ralph, told shareholders that slumping stock markets were battering the bottom line and that they should expect only modest profit growth this fiscal year.

Formenti was brilliantly attuned to the violence of much of the music - passages in which he thumped the keyboard with his elbows, pumped the piano's pedals, and battered the bottom notes in a pummelling ostinato - but he did not connect these moments.

But Rodriguez would be the third batter in the bottom of the ninth.

5 Spread half the cake batter in the bottom of prepared pan.

The first batter in the bottom of the first inning, Derek Jeter, ripped a home run over the right-field fence.

But he failed to retire a batter in the bottom of the inning as Milwaukee scored five times.

4. Spread a small ladleful of batter across the bottom of the pan, quickly swirling to coat.

I stirred up a fudgy brownie batter for the bottom layer, then chilled it while I mixed together the blondie topping.

To do this, I spooned very thin layers of batter into the bottom of a two-inch-deep square metal baking pan.

The Astros trailed, 5-0, one batter into the bottom of the third, then began their rally with an R.B.I. single by Craig Biggio in the fifth.