Examples of use of BATTERING
1. They served as his strategists and political battering rams.
2. Unfortunately the battering from the elements is showing no sign of abating.
3. Storm surge flooding as high as 4 feet was also forecast, with battering waves.
4. When it‘s obvious a suspect is holed up inside, he uses a battering ram.
5. "At the moment, I am the shield they are battering," he was quoted as saying.