battening in a sentence

Examples

1. The life insurance industry is battening down its hatches _ and consumers, it turns out, will pay the price.
2. The increasingly blurry direction of these events has left currency investors moving to the sidelines and simply battening down the hatches.
3. But they are not in a situation where they are battening down the hatches, either, " he added.
4. Opening onto the verandah are two substantial sliding doors clad in beaded boards, with panels of open timber battening above.
5. The battening pattern used was consistent throughout : below arched openings and on the front stair balustrade in the infill latticework.
6. "All of our facilities are secured, " said Riley . " We're just battening down the hatches ."
7. "I think it's typical battening down the hatches in advance of a downturn, " he said.
8. Unfortunately, it looks like he's responded to this just by battening down the hatches and preparing for a crusade.
9. Corrugated iron clad window hoods, with sides of timber battening, provide sun shading to many of the pairs of casements.
10. "Times are so uncertain that people are not just cocooning but really battening down the hatches, " she said.