Sentence examples for on battering from inspiring English sources

His teammates, meanwhile, kept on battering the Mets.

Infuriated, she carried on battering, threatening to go to the press unless the police accepted that she was complaining.

He said Mr. Calderón agreed that he should have focused more on rebuilding the nation's social and judicial institutions than on battering the cartels with the military and federal police.

Hooliganism was a way of life: matches were military operations; both for rival sets of fans intent on battering seven bells out of each other, and for the unlucky police forces trying to prevent them.

But her audience tends toward the reverential (somebody can usually be depended on to thank the Lord for her) and is unlikely to see the funny side of a performance that relies so heavily on battering softer souls into rectitude.

In many cases, the Republican-oriented groups got involved in the races early on, battering Democratic candidates with negative advertisements, helping to set the tone in those districts, even if Democratic candidates and their allies were eventually able to outspend them.

This week, they're taking on batter, a new addition for 2016 that may well mean pancakes, waffles or even savoury treats.

Or use the character or animal to climb on, ride on, batter through something, etc.

Two dozen young men were sitting on battered folding chairs, several discreetly smoking kif — tobacco blended with hashish.

Ben Hogan won the 1950 Open on battered legs 16 months after sustaining near fatal injuries from his Cadillac's collision with a bus on a foggy Texas highway.

But afternoon drinkers sitting on battered Thonet chairs in the garden out back, eating smoked mackerel and pickled cucumber toasts, made it even more appealing.