Sentence examples for battering out from inspiring English sources

The italicised opening of each chapter with a date and exact time (Washington, Sunday, 10.43am) smacks of parody, reminiscent of that terrible film cliche of a typewriter battering out a location on the screen.

An apparition rises from the clouds of dry ice billowing through the humid Cape Town air, his pipe-cleaner limbs contorting wildly as he leaps and prances to a drum groove that sounds like hammers battering out a tattoo on a tin roof.

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

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.

"If I get 8 out of 10 batters out, that's pretty good".

You have to learn how to get batters out again with less than your best stuff".

The Middlesex Cricket Club won heartily by 7 wickets, which is to say that Gymkhana scored 103 runs in its inning and had all 10 batters out; Middlesex scored 109 runs but only had three batters out.

In these moments, Martinez told himself that if he didn't get the batter out, the kidnappers would kill his sweet, wise, flower-loving mother.

He has seen that the same stuff that earned him raves throughout his amateur and minor league career can get big-league batters out, too.

"When I reach back, 100 percent, like when I'm trying to get a batter out, the groin area grabs," Pettitte said in a statement released by the Yankees.