Sentence examples for they batter from inspiring English sources
They batter left-handed pitching.
People don't batter balloons the way they batter drugs.
They batter you half to death: punching you, stamping on you, nearly breaking your toes … Afterwards you bathe in sulphuric water piped down from the hills.
Sebastian Roché, as a left-wing German theoretician who is an unpluggable fountain of nonsense, and Geoffrey Wade, as a caustic British builder whose tongue is a machete, battle each other even more than they batter poor Margaret.
The resulting apparatus features a dozen softballs and hardballs -- one signed "Ty Cobb" by a smart-aleck stagehand -- hanging from an X-shaped truss so that, when shaken, they batter a large plywood drum.
They batter away with questions, sometimes laced with profanity, racial slurs and insults: "Where's the weed?" "Where's the guns?" The officers tell those who ask why they have been stopped to shut up, using names like immigrant, old man or "bro".
This time, they battered Romo.
They battered the Orioles, 30-3, Wednesday.
"They bruised me, they battered me," she said.
They battered and bruised Drew Bledsoe, sacking him time after time.
Today, before signing, they battered the union officials with questions.
