Sentence examples for has batters from inspiring English sources

A crafty pitcher has batters "swaying at the plate like cobras to a flageolet," and a bunt meanders up the foul line "like a 6-year-old bicyclist's first solo: fair, fair, foul -- oop, fair -- foul, then miraculously fair again".

This has battered already fragile balance sheets.

War has battered an economy that was already limping.

Of late it has battered its competitors in America.

This has led to a dramatic fall in exports that has battered regional economies.

The scandal has battered the reputation of GlaxoSmithKline, which is also known as GSK.

Regardless, the strife-filled process has battered the country's fledgling democratic institutions.

Pervasive corruption has battered all the instruments of governance into hideous shapes.

The downturn in the world economy has battered many new eastern companies.

The bad weather that has battered the country recently did not spare the Matchroom Stadium.

** The money Adelson has poured into Gingrich's cause has battered Romney's campaign.