Sentence examples for battered themselves from inspiring English sources

Wales battered themselves against the French and hardly made a dent.

Still, some kind of fade-out should have been expected because the Power battered themselves into submission a week earlier against North Melbourne.

No sedative or entreaty proved effective, and after four days of battering themselves relentlessly against the doors of their holding cells the men loosed a last high-pitched shriek and died within minutes of each other.

Marching in one-by-one to a fortified objective is the surest way to lose a match, and there's little worse than watching your teammates batter themselves like moths against the flame.

My ears have taken quite a battering themselves over the years.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star as Stone and Kowalsky, the skittish newcomer and the wily old pro, who find themselves battered by the drifting debris from a Russian satellite.

But the rosy forecasts have failed to mask the question of how the British themselves, battered by rising unemployment and steep government spending cuts, will react to what almost certainly is to be an opulent celebration.

On Thursday, though, they found themselves battered and storm-tossed by the Indianapolis Colts, who mercilessly trampled the Saints in the NFL's season opener 41-10, scoring up to the last minute of a lopsided contest.

Unfortunately the clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.

A hermetic sanctuary for those battered by awards season and bracing themselves for the barren months to come.

Haitians were struggling to feed themselves before the hurricanes battered their agricultural lands, killed their livestock and washed away their tiny stores of rice.