Sentence examples for been battered with from inspiring English sources

She had been battered with a rock and a concrete block, suffering 50 wounds.

His imagination has been battered with all possibilities of a disaster, not least the prospect that Greece might leave the euro.

For the Yankees, who have been battered with bad news lately, Cano's surprising decision could only be seen as a heartening development.

Investor confidence in Lucent has been battered, with the stock price just slightly more than double its initial split-adjusted value of $6.38 in April 1996.

Part of the way through her fusillade, Clinton broke into a spasm of coughing––much of the campaign entourage of aides and press had been battered with the flu and other transmittable ailments––and then, briefly, she lost her voice.

While Seth is passable as an arrogant snarky young student, the preening, permanently oiled Khan flabbergasts throughout as he flaunts and flexes his mammoth musculature, his vanity made perplexing by the fact that his snub-nosed face looks like it had been battered with a rock at birth.

Banks were battered, with HBOS down 46.5p to 913p.

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

Santorum can now expect to be battered with millions of dollars in negative adverts by the Romney campaign.

The sandwich is battered with egg and milk and briefly grilled in butter before being deep-fried.

Then the instruments were laid out: xylophone-like creations fashioned from toilet pipes, cymbals made from bicycle wheels, daisy chains of spanners for chimes, and piles of rubbish to be battered with whatever was to hand.