How to Use battering in a Sentence

battering

noun
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  • 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
  • Armed with the size and number of impactors, Marchi and colleagues built a model that describes, as a function of time, the volume of melt this battering must have produced at the Earth’s surface.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024

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