Sentence examples for batters down from inspiring English sources

"I had every confidence we'd hit and I could hold the batters down".

"So to go from two experienced batters down to one and none in the middle order would be a hole to fill.

A hurricane's a-coming, rain batters down, lightning flashes across the sky.

Sometimes, unforeseen, a masterpiece seizes the knocker, batters down the door and enters unopposed; and when that happens, I am a willing casualty.

Old-timers may love recounting that baseball was more manly when pitchers knocked batters down for the smallest perceived infractions, yet the golden age of the hit batter began about 1993.

"The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.

No sooner was the door closed than it was battered down and fell into the room.

Once you have the proportions of the seafood to batter down, you can vary the ocean matter.

It uprooted trees, battered down utility poles, damaged homes and cars, closed roads and knocked out street and traffic lights.

So those were the doors that this crazed soldier battered down, before he shot women and children, gathered their bodies into a pile and set them on fire.

You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.