How to Use battering in a Sentence

battering

noun

• This has exposed towns along the coast to brutal battering by waves and tidal surges.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2018
• Brown videotaped the encounter in which the agents used a battering ram to pop the door open.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
• 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
• After years of battering, the garage door looks as pocked as the lunar surface.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• 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 first is a battering ram that crashes into the asteroid and makes a crater.
  — Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
• 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
• Witnesses said the bull was struck dozens of times, and the sound of the battering was deafening.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 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
• Mike Pollak grew up on football fields as a human battering ram.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 9 July 2019
• 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
• The restaurant industry has taken a battering over the last six weeks.
  — NBC News, 16 Apr. 2020
• The battering marked the first bison-human attack in 13 months at the park.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• 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
• Finally, police tried to enter the garage with a battering ram.
  — Eric Adler and Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 15 June 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
• Such are the lessons that transform her, the battering experiences of a life fully lived.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The exact nature of that battering is hard to explain with any precision.
  — Adam Sachs, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2018
• After a battering from a month of coastal storms, storm surges will continue eroding coastlines.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
• Russia’s image has not taken such a battering since the days of Stalin.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2023
• Or, they can be transformed by techniques such as stir-frying or tempura-battering.
  — Riley Wofford, Martha Stewart, 21 Feb. 2026
• If prices jump, would those students want to go to a school whose reputation has taken a battering in recent months?
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2018
• Sheriff’s deputies used a battering ram to enter and arrested the women.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020
• Perhaps this depiction seems obvious, but this is a team whose image has taken a battering over the last few years.
  — Beau Dure, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• The battering of cold weather outside and comfort of warm air inside means your lips are likely to be left feeling a little parched.
  — Isadora Baum, Allure, 19 Nov. 2024
• The battering of cold weather outside and comfort of warm air inside means your lips are likely to be left feeling a little parched.
  — Isadora Baum, Allure, 19 Nov. 2024
• So, too, will the batterings follow until tournament bids are handed out in March.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 4 Jan. 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
• Some modern theories have posited that the wooden horse was a machine of warfare, such as a siege engine or a battering ram.
  — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
• Almost everything sounds great, but the constant patter of the drums, which falls into the boosted bass range, feels more like a battering.
  — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 8 May 2026