Sentence examples for ground beaten from inspiring English sources

Long stems, spindly from the lack of light, snapped under the weight of expanding buds, or flopped to the ground, beaten down by the rain.

I saw one press photographer pulled to the ground and beaten with sticks.

Euphrasie Mukanwemera recounts in horrifying detail how her baby was grabbed off her back, flung to the ground and beaten to death.

That, he said, meant being slammed against a floor by a soldier wielding a riot shield, pinned to the ground and beaten up by five armed men.

Bystanders and a number of journalists were also attacked; a photographer was dragged to the ground and beaten by four youths.

That run came to an end when collared by Soll at Sandown in January and he has fared much less well in two runs since, on drier ground, being beaten more than 40 lengths each time.

Mr. Barnes claimed that he and a firefighter bumped into each other, and that he was then struck over the head with a beer bottle, dragged to the ground and beaten.

MICHAEL RATNER, as a law student at Columbia University, was pushed to the ground and beaten by the police in 1968 as he and other students blocked the entrance to a building occupied by protesters.

SANFORD, Fla .— A prosecution witness who saw portions of the altercation between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin on Feb , 26 , 2012took the stand on Friday, bolstering the defense's contention that Mr. Zimmerman was on the ground being beaten by Mr. Martin when the fatal shot was fired.

A federal jury in Manhattan ruled yesterday that two members of the New York Police Department's Street Crime Unit violated the rights of two men who were stopped by the police in 1997, after which the driver said he was thrown to the ground and beaten.

Our cameraman was knocked to the ground and beaten.