Sentence examples for of being battered from inspiring English sources

After two days of being battered by Donegal rain, we started to wonder about that, too.

In fairness, all the usual procedures were followed, in a region with considerable experience of being battered by nature.

Its members have written gut-tearing tales of being battered by life -- being molested, beaten, cheated, raped.

Finally, the F.B.I. got tired of being battered and sick of Mr. Tenet's coziness with the president and decided to spread around the blame.

After years of being battered by the GOP, Democrats may soon get their chance to question administration officials on moves they've made on health care, some of which have been — or may be — challenged in court.

Peter Keen said the real story behind the 56 km Hour was "incredible form coming off the suffering of being battered in the Tour... it was a perfect day, a great crowd, the form of his life".

Headlines in UK media railing against the latest 'diktat from Brussels' have long conveyed a narrative of national sovereignty being battered and bruised from afar — implying this is one of the principal ingredients of being a member of the EU, rather than flagging the potential and actual benefits of erasing some of the barriers that divide up a region of some 500 million people.

— Colt McCoy, the University of Texas quarterback with a gunslinger's name and a game to match, spent most of Monday night being battered and beaten up by Ohio State.

Inside the pizzeria on 84th Street, the television flickered, broadcasting an image of the exposed skeleton of a broken crane being battered by the wind.

The risk of the global economy being battered by a "perfect storm" in 2016 has been highlighted by the World Bank in a flagship report that warns that a synchronised slowdown in the biggest emerging markets could be intensified by a fresh bout of financial turmoil.

We don't have the film of Cleveland's Herb Score being battered by Yankee batter Gil McDougald in 1957, but we've seen enough of Alex Cobb, Brandon McCarthy, and the five who were hit in the 2015 season to get the idea just how gruesome a scenario it is.