How to Use battering in a Sentence

battering

noun

• Agents used a battering ram to break down the front door of the apartment, and hauled away Mr. Elshinawy.
  — Mark Maremont, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2017
• But with a new season ahead and a new offense in place, the battering ram who couldn’t catch has the chance to be much more.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• The battering marked the first bison-human attack in 13 months at the park.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Witnesses said the bull was struck dozens of times, and the sound of the battering was deafening.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• This has exposed towns along the coast to brutal battering by waves and tidal surges.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2018
• Soon, though, the euphemisms fall away, heads are bashed and Tony himself is taking a battering on the home front.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• After years of battering, the garage door looks as pocked as the lunar surface.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• The first is a battering ram that crashes into the asteroid and makes a crater.
  — Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
• Dozens of beloved pairs of shoes that had sprung a leak or were injured in some other way by the batterings of time found refuge in his strong hands.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• One group used a makeshift battering-ram, fashioned from a trolley, to break a large glass door on the outside of the building.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• One boat would lead as a battering ram; the second would gouge out a larger channel in its wake.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The battering caused parts of the southbound lanes to collapse along the shoulder between mile markers 4.8 and 5.2.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• But can a conference that strong and the weekly batterings that are so fierce become a detriment to the league?
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• Sandwiched between the two singles was a two-run shot in the fourth inning that fit this Friday night battering of the Blue Jays.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2019
• Don't doubt for a second that the batterings and grueling battles will take a toll, too.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• The group had a collective laugh at one teenager, who mistook a battering ram for a bazooka.
  — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• Murray is more of a battering ram who had the benefit of the solid Raiders line to help him score 12 touchdowns last year.
  — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2017
• LeGarrette Blount The big dude was supposed to score more than two touchdowns this year as the battering ram in the Eagles' offense, but alas.
  — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
• The restaurant industry has taken a battering over the last six weeks.
  — NBC News, 16 Apr. 2020
• Trump, meanwhile, took a battering from others in the party.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• Such are the lessons that transform her, the battering experiences of a life fully lived.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Ware: Curled up in an armchair in front of a blazing hearth, in the drawing room of a remote country house with the wind whistling in the chimney and sleet battering at the windows.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2022
• But Veep made its point with a battering, swift insistence.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• Russia’s image has not taken such a battering since the days of Stalin.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2023
• That would be its longest winning streak since July, in the early days of the market's bounce back from its battering earlier in the year.
  — Damian J. Troise, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• Finally, police tried to enter the garage with a battering ram.
  — Eric Adler and Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 15 June 2018
• Molina, exhausted after taking a battering in the eighth, had his arms hanging over the ropes when the round ended.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
• But when Covid-19 took hold, the Olympics were postponed and the already struggling economy took a further battering.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020
• Mike Pollak grew up on football fields as a human battering ram.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 9 July 2019
• The exact nature of that battering is hard to explain with any precision.
  — Adam Sachs, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024