Strike against forcefully

Usage examples of battering.

He paced, ignoring the battering sounds of compies on the other side of the wall.

Lugging sonic battering rams, the new penetration team--five times the size of the previous squad--rushed up to the barricaded doors on the quiet side of the sprawling facility, choosing to enter through wings less likely to be occupied by the murderous compies.

Catching them off guard, she smashed the narrow gate open wider with the battering ram of her mind.

With the aid of Hendel, the giant borderman began to roll the rounded battering ram sideways toward the wedge of Gnomes and the closed doors to the chamber beyond, the monstrous roller gathering speed and power with each revolution as it thundered toward the hapless guards.

At the rim of the bluff, a detachment of heavily armored Rock Trolls pushed forward a ponderous, mobile battering ram, shielded from the top and sides by a broad canopy of sheet iron.

The bar alone would not be enough to stand against the massive battering ram.

The shattering thrusts of the massive battering ram continued to sake the great wall as Balinor and Durin faced each other across the little room.

Despite the devastating barrage concentrated against the men of the Border Legion by the lines of Gnome archers below the bluff, the valiant defenders managed to cut away at the Trolls that manned the great battering ram before the weakened gates.

Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm.

But the T-38 kept right on, battering its way into increasingly disturbed air.

Massive earthquakes had occurred in Turkey, Chile and elsewhere, many of them battering communities already devastated by the effects of the Tide.

The yelling at the door was growing intense, and the first hints of organized battering were detectable.

The air was a powerful physical presence, battering at her torso and face, whipping her hair, snatching the breath from her lungs.

Such fistulas were caused by battering during childbirth, and were more common in very young girls, where the strain of prolonged labor often caused such tearsor in older women, where the tissues had grown less elastic.

Bug had bustled her way to the front, basket held before her like a battering ram.