Sentence examples for be battered about from inspiring English sources

An actress of a certain age, Peil knows what it means to be battered about, and to keep going anyway.

Still, Mr Smith can be battered about more than some cabinet ministers because he is neither in the camp of Gordon Brown's or that of Tony Blair.

Sparks and embers whizzed past my truck as it was battered about by the chaos.

The once-solid bolivar — a currency that dates to the 19th century and is named after Simon Bolivar, the South American independence hero — has been battered about like a punch-drunk boxer in recent years.

Nonetheless, the sport continued to be battered with embarrassing disclosures about players' use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The searing heartbreaking pictures of children being battered and tossed about by powerful fire hoses and attacked by police dogs appeared on front pages around the country and world and helped turned the tide of public opinion in support of Dr. King's local and the national civil rights movement's fight for justice. .

And each year, between 50,000-100,000 lesbians (or more) and as many as 500,000 (or more) gay men are battered, and about one in four LGBTI relationships/partnerships are abusive in some way.

The daily warnings, coming at a time when the White House has been battered by questions about whether it might have missed important signals about Al Qaeda's intentions in the United States, have prompted speculation that the White House is using the threats to change the subject.

The shares are currently being battered by anxiety about the bank's exposure to Ireland.

Soon afterward, the company was battered by headlines about renters who trashed a San Francisco home.

The increase continues the wild gyrations in prices that have occurred during April, and it came just a day after the technology-heavy Nasdaq index was battered on worries about Microsoft, the industry's bellwether company.