Utiliser "batter down" dans une phrase

1. They had tried their hardest to batter down the door, but it was no good at all

2. They would batter down their defences and then focus their combined powers on each magician, one at a time

3. So he stands aside, and the mob in the background refocuses itself to batter down the doors

4. Could not a single foreign frigate enter almost any of our harbors now and batter down our towns? Could not even a single gunboat sweep some of them? Mr