Sentence examples for battered out of from inspiring English sources

It was then that Pelé, the greatest player of them all, was battered out of the World Cup in England.

And I think it is because I had my self-esteem battered out of me at such a young age.

9.14pm GMT Insigne nearly scores from a tight angle on the left, but the ball's battered out of play for a corner by the upstanding Fabiano.

Occupational hazards include "ice-cream headache" from the frigid waters, waves battered out of shape by gales, and long drives to get to the most reliable spots.

I wonder if, at some level, the capacity for finding things funny had been battered out of her? "I think so," Williams agrees.

The young people Stonewall works with insist that role models help restore the self-esteem, confidence and sense of aspiration that's often been battered out of them through homophobic bullying at school.

Rather, Hannah is greeted by "the same old smell of Africa and its sense-surrounding watery heat and its sounds -- the blat of a battered, out-of-tune diesel truck... the yips of small dog, the clack of dominoes against a Masonite lapboard, or a transistor radio playing its lonely juju song to no one at a village crossroads cookshop".

Sure, sometimes it's fun to ask people to consider how they'd like to be maimed, to relive drug-induced hell-trips or to pick an animal to batter out of existence with a brick.

Once, during a performance of Parsifal at the Kennedy Center, Daniel J. Boorstin — an omnivorous intellect and no mean batter-out of manuscripts himself — took advantage of the Good Friday music to tell me about the habits of the Costa Rican three-toed sloth.

Final thoughts: So the Lions battered out the park any hopes of South Africa recording a whitewash.

At times, you can almost hear nine men battering chunks out of each other while they scream with thwarted rage.