Sentence examples for battered the docks from inspiring English sources

More than 4,000 people died, 70,000 were made homeless and 10,000 homes were destroyed as Nazi bombers battered the docks and the city, especially in the May blitz of 1941, when 85% of homes in Bootle were lost.

The standard marine practice in such a case would be for a ship to go to sea to avoid being battered against the dock, experts say, and in the Caribbean trying to sail south of the storm.

The battered ship straggled into dock, and grateful scientists unlashed themselves from their bunks, tiptoeing around bashed furniture and shattered glass.

"The docks were sleazy.

The mobs controlled the docks.

"Refugees thronged the docks.

People clog the docks.

There was worry, as in the case of Helen Hays, who monitors the tern populations on Gull Island, off the tip of Long Island, where the battering waves destroyed part of the dock (she remained on the comparatively safer island of Manhattan).

Fry the battered beans.

The dock is simple.

The boat hit the dock.