battening in a sentence

Examples

1. In at least one flat, the timber battening on the ceiling retains its dark staining, but most ceilings have been repainted.
2. "The company is battening down the hatches and trying to re-prove themselves to the Street, " he said.
3. We are just sort of battening down the hatches and trying to figure out what is going to go on in the Middle East.
4. On both the ground and first levels, the verandah is timber and has simple, painted timber battening, balustrade, and weatherboards.
5. The verandah balustrades which are replacements of a cast iron balustrade, are of vertical timber battening with decorative cutouts in regularly spaced battens.
6. Some Northern Alliance troops are already battening down for their sixth winter against the Taliban, hoping that their prospects will improve with the spring.
7. These two buildings are single room, weatherboard buildings with corrugated iron half-gabled roofs, sitting on painted concrete stumps with timber battening.
8. Meanwhile, industries that investors traditionally associate with fat payouts-- telephone companies and electric utilities-- are battening down and slowing dividend growth.
9. As South Korea prepares to turn to the International Monetary Fund for the first time, companies and investors are battening down for tough times ahead.
10. The verandah has square timber posts with square capitals and arched timber valances, surmounted by spandrels with fine lattice battening, and cast iron balustrades.