Sentence examples for been battered with a from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

And CNA, the nation's seventh-largest commercial lines insurer, had been battered with losses from asbestos claims and bad pricing.

Others are used as so-called dictionary attackers in which servers are battered with combinations of popular words in a bid to uncover passwords.

Even now, following his humiliating defeat in the Italian Senate earlier this month, and while being battered with sundry legal suits, his go-to power suit remains in place, a patriotic flag badge pinned to the lapel.

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.