Sentence examples for battering around from inspiring English sources

"After battering around from this dwelling to that one, we finally ended up in a government house in Trench Town," recalled his mother, Cedella Booker, in her biography of her son.

A woman falls into a weekend of bad sex - "an aimless battering around the nub of him" - with a damaged, drinking liar.

The trajectory of events can only be deemed an insult to the authority of the court, whose decisions have been repeatedly beaten up and battered around, their opinions altered, ignored and even abused on the matters of enemy combatants.

In the Eagles 29-16 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday, Vick got battered around again and suffered another injury -- a broken hand.

But the agency they signed up for has been battered around and led by revolving door.

She's been battered around by real life, has never quite fitted in …" Burton drifts off.

The word honor in 2010 -- as Mr. Appiah is aware -- is contested territory, and a bit battered around the edges.

It's a cute little place, a bit battered around the edges, but in a decorative way.

If the Yankees had a source of angst through their serene beginnings, it was the sight of Vazquez being battered around in his first two starts.

Mr Causer was punched, kicked and finally battered around the head with a heavy history book so forcibly that the book's spine broke, the court heard.

Cue a Rocky-esque three minutes in which a forlorn Taylor was battered around the ring before the referee stepped in with barely 15 seconds to go.