Sentence examples for it battered the from inspiring English sources

Numbers told the story of Tropical Storm Irene's continuing impact on the New York region a week after it battered the East Coast with driving rain, floods and wild winds.

Tropical Storm Nate has killed at least 22 people in Central America as it battered the region with heavy rain while heading toward Mexico's Caribbean resorts and the US Gulf Coast where it could strike as a hurricane this weekend.

The hurricane, as everyone knows, was Katrina, and it battered the city with the expected wind and rain, while Zeitoun and many thousands of his fellow citizens – some jammed into the comfortless shelter of the Superdome, some in their own beds – stayed awake and listened.

It battered the "Tri-State" area including my home on Staten Island in New York City.

Percy was also the most damaging of the February cyclones as it battered the Cook Islands, which were still recovering from the impacts of Cyclones Meena, Nancy and Olaf.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which killed at least 48 people in New York when it battered the Northeast last week, frustrated residents in this corner of South Brooklyn are coping without electricity, heat and running water.

BBC weather forecasters have been tracking the path of Typhoon Haiyan as it batters the central Philippines.

I feel sound itself in my bones as it batters the streets underneath five tons of stomping death.

It has also battered the academic space-science community.

It weakened after battering the Caribbean islands (where it caused about 100 deaths).

It began flapping wildly, wings battering the ground.