Sentence examples for battering through from inspiring English sources

Harlequins edged ahead again with an Evans penalty before Slade was involved in a move that revolved around Elvis Taione battering through Evans – who was forced off in groggy pain – and finished with Steenson taking a pass brilliantly off the floor to score a try he converted himself.

She described the experience in her writings as a battering "through a thick stone wall that was growing as thin as tissue paper," and then as a "floating upon the billowing clouds of glory".

At one cellblock, a crowd took iron bars and steel tubes to batter through the walls.

Although he is healthy now, he has been battered through the years.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are right to look for ways to batter through the procrastination of decades, but must be wary of the risks.

The department, which lost 343 men in the World Trade Center attack, has been struggling to rebuild its ranks, which have been badly battered through retirements and attrition.

That system had been battered through the 1980s by the big clubs threatening to break away, but it held out, giving smaller clubs a fighting chance of competing with the Liverpools.

Only one tackler reeled backwards as Lomu attempted to batter through the home ranks for the first time, but after the fly-half Hercules Kruger was flattened the massed ranks of the home defence did not allow him any further latitude.

I wonder whether the waltz is a faultz: whether it's going to be far better to batter through jump-jive, and murderous brothel-born tango, and crazed-sax samba, rather than let the judges see what your feet are actually doing.

Though the company's been battered through the years by a Ronald Perlman takeover and an ugly court battle with founder Stan Lee over copyrights, shares have been among the best performing in entertainment in the last decade since bottoming around a buck in 2000.

The rafters blew off the warehouse as the swoll-as-fuck Rhymes battered through "Woo-Hah," "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See," and the motormouthed Drake co-lab "Look at Me Now".