Sentence examples for it was batter from inspiring English sources

By Hendrik Hertzberg July 15 , 2010As I was saying a couple of posts ago, the minute the Uruguay-Germany World Cup match ended, we (me plus wife, kid, and sister) were off to Coney Island, where, at 6 P.M., it was "batter up" for the Brooklyn Cyclones and the State College (Pa).

I urged them to tuck in — it was batter-dipped and elegant, I thought — but they stared gravely at their plates.

It was battered and charred, but whole.

But here it was battering Languedoc in July.

No sooner was the door closed than it was battered down and fell into the room.

It was battered in Maggie's cafe of food guide fame, over the fish market.

And, even today, Baghdad looks and feels much as it did a decade ago, when it was battered and rocked by war.

Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare in the Bristol Channel partially disintegrated after it was battered by the latest storm to hit the UK over the Christmas period.

In the western Palawan province, officials said three fishermen died after jumping off their anchored boat when it was battered by big waves.

To love the Bronx is to love it when it is down, and yes, it was battered and staggering 20 years ago.

"We had a print from the 50's that had been through the projector any number of times, so it was battered," Mr. Murphy said.