Sentence examples for it batters from inspiring English sources

The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate".

It's not always subtle, but it batters you into submission.

Even so, I'll always eventually end up battering away at the thing until it batters back.

It batters you with novelty and works so hard to top itself that exhaustion sets in long before the second hour is over.

"The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.

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

It battered my time-compass.

The next day, Hurricane Sandy left it battered and partly submerged.

"Ten years ago I discovered it, battered, grimy, plastered with dingy loft signs.

It battered Mexico's Pacific-coast resort of Acapulco, and lowered water levels, enforcing draught restrictions on ships in the Panama canal.

The NWS said the twister's path was 17 miles (27km) long and 1.3 miles wide and it battered Moore for about 45 minutes on Monday afternoon.