Sentence examples for wield a battering from inspiring English sources

Another 1,000 men were needed to wield a battering ram 180 feet (55 metres) long.

Love is great, obviously, and makes us feel a combination of effervescent and unhinged but is wielded like a battering ram at this time of the year.

Knows how to wield a sharp knife?

But Ms. Plaza does know how to wield a negative.

He would wield a gun or dao and a shield.

Learn how to wield a Katana.

Financial markets have taken a battering.

The economy has also taken a battering.

FINANCIAL MARKETS  Stockmarkets took a battering.

The following year, Thomas Gilyard, a black "tramp" who had been arrested and charged with murdering a policeman, was dragged from the Joplin jailhouse by a white mob wielding sledgehammers and a battering ram, and hanged, to cheers, from a nearby telegraph pole.

Slobodan Marovic may as well have gone on to the field wearing a blood-stained white coat and wielding a cleaver, and yet the likes of Brian Laudrup, Dejan Savicevic and Robert Prosinecki prospered despite the battering they took.