Sentence examples for were knocked about from inspiring English sources

I have post-traumatic stress disorder because we were knocked about daily at Central.

The 1999 recommendations in my column were knocked about, rising only 5.5%—far short of the market's performance.

When they were finally allowed to enter, they were "knocked about and slammed around" by some of Central High's roughly 2,000 white students for the rest of the year.

If the representative point of a system were knocked about randomly, then due to this asymmetry, it would be very probable that the system at any given time be on a trajectory leading toward equilibrium.

"I had been knocked about very considerably," he remarks.

Naidoo had been knocked about by the police, and had named names.

A few dozen watch stands are knocked about, without a watch in sight.

She is again hospitalized and, returning home, is fearful of being knocked about by her canine pal.

The world is coming at him and vice versa, and he will be knocked about but not out.

To demand loyalty to every fibre of the plot would be absurd; if any novel is rich and robust enough to be knocked about, it is this one.

FOR years, the proposal that universities should charge top-up tuition fees has been knocked about by policy-wonks in think-tanks.