Sentence examples for battered off from inspiring English sources

These stone tools generally consisted of sharp flakes battered off a stone core, but early hominids also did more sophisticated flaking and retouching to sharpen and straighten their blades.

A variation employed the anvil stone, a large stationary rock against which the workpiece was swung to batter off large flakes.

Somehow Wales were still pressing, the outstanding Toby Faletau battering off a scrum to set up good field position only for Hook to mis-hit his attempted drop-goal under pressure.

They also have to find a way to keep Timo Perez, the Mets' new leadoff batter, off base.

The boy picked the batter off, to reveal a wing as elaborately paned as a cathedral window, and then bit into it: his first bug.

A Glendale police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he drunkenly battered, while off duty, two Burbank police officers responding to a disturbance call at a Burbank restaurant last month.

They are only now getting their heads back above water after raising capital from investors to rebuild balance-sheets battered by write-offs on exotic bonds and derivatives backed by iffy American mortgages.

Role: Right-handed batter, off-spin bowler.

The change-up is a slower pitch that throws batters off-guard when expecting another fast-ball.

In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his spiritual conversion.

Gas clouds in the middle of the galaxy are, everyone agrees, partly ionised: radiation flying through has battered electrons off some of the atoms in the gas.