1. There's someone battering at the door.

2. He kept battering at the door.

3. Leaving the relationship does not mean that the battering will stop.

4. They got a battering ram to smash down the door.

5. He kept battering away at the door.

6. There's someone battering ( away ) at the door.

7. People were battering at the door.

8. They were battering the door, they were breaking in.

9. High winds were battering the ship.

10. Severe winds have been battering the north coast.

11. He was battering the door with his fists and howling.

12. He was accused of battering his former wife and child.

13. The film took a battering from critics in the US.

14. Sterling took a battering yesterday as worries grew about the state of Britain's economy.

15. His hands were bloody with battering at it.

16. He is a powerhouse, a battering ram, but also has touch and an eye for goal.

17. Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women.

18. The immigration issue, the National Front's favourite political battering ram, is still there.

19. Child abuse, wife battering, family break-up(Sentencedict.com), delinquency and alcoholism are no respecters of beautiful surroundings.

20. The man she was living with was battering her, Lee-Cruz said, and she called the police.

21. There were reports of soldiers battering prisoners with their rifles.

22. He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter.

23. We get up and Molloy gets hold of Mowat again and Mowat swings round battering him right across the road.

24. The whale uses the front of his head as a weapon by battering into the object it is trying to destroy.

25. Finally, I could feel the turbulence pass like a battering rain cloud moving on.sentencedict.com

26. She must have been mad to consider the possibility, especially after the emotional battering she had received from Giles.

27. In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.

28. He then knocked a 21-year-old girl over and kicked her in the face, before half choking and battering a 23-year-old.

29. We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door.

30. Until recently, courts have resisted self-defence arguments unless the woman committed the crime in immediate response to battering.