Sentence examples for battered down from inspiring English sources

No sooner was the door closed than it was battered down and fell into the room.

Most forecasters hold that by summer the entire economy could very well be growing more slowly, battered down by Asia.

It uprooted trees, battered down utility poles, damaged homes and cars, closed roads and knocked out street and traffic lights.

You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.

So those were the doors that this crazed soldier battered down, before he shot women and children, gathered their bodies into a pile and set them on fire.

The researchers also insisted that the new levees could be battered down again if the corps did not armor them against erosion with concrete, rocks or other materials.

The rain was still battering down and power lines and trees had been downed.

Once you have the proportions of the seafood to batter down, you can vary the ocean matter.

Born in 1895, he straddled the Victorian age and our own, and he did much to batter down the old conventions.

A contingent of Marines finally put an end to it by battering down the armory's doors, bayoneting two of the raiders and beating Brown senseless before taking him into custody.

As if these 17th-century works, which struggled to shine beyond the confines of the court, were already somehow battering down the doors of the sacrosanct New York Times bestseller list of the 21st century!