Sentence examples for battered buildings from inspiring English sources

The hurricane moved ashore early this morning about 15 miles southwest of here near Patterson, which today was a welter of overturned trailers, splintered trees and battered buildings.

The storm's impact on land has been less severe than initially thought, but it still knocked down trees, flooded streets, and battered buildings, before rapidly losing power in the mountains that rise up along the Pacific coast.

Residents are going back to the battered buildings in the centre, which was the scene of the fiercest fighting in the spring.

Fort Worth's streets were littered with debris and battered buildings, demolished automobiles and downed trees marked the blocks-wide swath of the twister that sliced through the city.

On the other hand, he said, the beach restaurants have branched out aggressively and leave battered buildings and unsightly debris around during the off-season.

If it all sounds a bit cliched, the experience will at least be redeemed by the presence of the bruised and battered buildings, stripped back to reveal their multiple layers of history.

Online videos of the government assault in recent days show multiple shells battering buildings and kicking up huge clouds of dust, along with graphic footage of rows of charred corpses lined up in a cemetery.

Flooding streets and battering buildings, Patricia hit land as a Category 5 hurricane on Friday evening before grinding inland.

The educational system, in the wake of a hurricane that battered its buildings, doubled down and finished the job itself.

At least 30 Palestinians were killed on Sunday as artillery and rocket fire battered other buildings across the Gaza strip, just a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to continue with Israel's military operation, even as the military was completing its main aim of destroying Hamas's elaborate cross-border tunnel network.

A hurricane is fuelled by the warmth of tropical waters and loses strength when it crosses land, but not before the wind batters buildings and the sea swamps the coastline.