Sentence examples for battered on a from inspiring English sources

We are being battered on a lot of different fronts.

Characters' language soars, swoops, plummets and flutters through shifting registers as scenes tumble and swirl - gritty banter in a seedy Edinburgh bar; poetic litanies of names on a mountain slope climb (real or imagined?) to a destiny never reached; ballsy rock'n'roll battered on a guitar in a bedsit, folk songs sung softly in a hospital ward.

Based on the NYSE's current schedule of continual listing fees, the firm pays at most $500,000 per year for the right to have its shares battered on a continual basis.

She was found heavily battered on a roadside in Yolo county three weeks later.

He has been known to batter on a referee's door during the interval of a match with his team leading 3-0 and on the way to clinching the league championship.

They scored nine on Thursday: three on hits, three on ground balls, one on a wild pitch, one on a hit batter, one on a rare trifecta: a strikeout and passed ball and error, all wrapped into the same play.

He struck out four, retired three others on grounders, got one batter on a foul pop and actually let one batter hit a fly to the outfield.

Not that there was much sign of impending nuclear apocalypse along Helensburgh's wind battered seafront on a rainy Sunday.

They still would like to add a specialist who can retire left-handed batters on a one-year contract.

In that span, he gave up one hit and one walk; he retired two batters on a line-drive double play; he struck out one batter.

Nobody thought the pitcher, protecting a one-run lead, would purposely hit the leadoff batter on a 3-2 pitch.