They were sacrificed in batches of seven a day for a week, the abbot himself perishing after the last batch on the last day of the week.
But they escaped annihilation by machine-gun fire and stormed through the upheaved earth into Gommecourt Park, killing many Germans and sending back batches of prisoners.
They straggled away inbatches to one of the suburbs of Lens--the Cite St.-Auguste.
For the first time in the war the cavalry had their chance of pursuit, and made full use of it, rounding up great batches of prisoners, capturing batteries of heavy and light guns, and fighting in many actions.
In the daytime they were sent up in batches of fifty to get a little fresh air from the sea; and as the crew of the ship feared them, a couple of cannons were pointed at the little bit of deck where they took exercise.
In the old colonial days when Louisville was the capital, slaves used to be brought there in large batches on market days.
All were herded or separated and sold off in batches and re-herded with little or no regard to family relationships, though these poor, dark-minded slaves did form the most intimate and precious attachments.
Even on a small scale it is often found that the latest batches of latex are unfit for the preparation of good sheet rubber, and the trouble may be easily exaggerated when working on a large scale.
In the absence of an anti-oxidant the degree of oxidation may vary daily and in different batches of latex on any one day, so that there is always the possibility of a lack of uniformity due to oxidation effects.
Crepe should never be allowed to remain folded overnight, and batches of folded wet crepe should be placed on edge to drain off surface moisture.
For this reason batchesof wet crepe should always be placed on edge, to allow free drainage of surface moisture, if the rubber cannot be taken at once to the drying-sheds.
Small batches are milled under uniform conditions, preferably in an enclosed masticator such as Baker and Perkins supply.
They're used by seed companies and farmers to clean small batches of seed for inspection and are usually about one square foot in size with a quality wooden frame.
Other batches of millet might work better with a screen one step larger or smaller.
When one of these batches was laid and left under normal conditions, the usual form of young hatched from it, but other batches from the same female under abnormal conditions resulted in the production of atypical forms.
Cook double batches and freeze the extras in serving size packages.
Sometimes these people will moonlight and make large batches of your favorite recipe for you.
When refrigerating foods, have them in small enough batches so that they'll cool quickly.
Prepare food in batches and have out only what you're using.
Add scaloppine, in batches if necessary, so that they do not touch.
Three batches of letters had been produced by the newspaper.
Below the big pile of timber and muck on which I stood was a winding path, and other tracks on each side of it between the deep shell-craters, and down these ways came batches of prisoners and the trail of our walking wounded.
Many blockhouses yielded up their batches of prisoners, who were told to get back and give no trouble.
Here and there, in the open ground to the right of Poelcappelle and on the ground below Passchendaele, batches of German soldiers made little fight, but came rushing out of their holes with their hands up, terror-stricken.
Crowds of suspects were brought into Manila, and shiploads of them were sent away in local steamers to the Caroline Islands and Mindanao, whilst every mail-steamer carried batches of them en route for Fernando Po.
The intense excitement was intentionally sustained by batches of natives who rushed hither and thither with hideous yells to inspire a feeling of terror.
For some time there were cases of batches of the rank-and-file passing over to the brigands whom they were sent to disperse or capture.
Provincial governors and parish priests seemed to regard it as a duty to supply the capital with batches of "suspects" from their localities.
The assistant takes the flasks in batches of four or five at a time to the fume cupboard, where he adds a measured quantity of acid.
The assays are dealt with in batches of ten or twenty, so that a large quantity of work can be quickly finished.
Two and three batches of bread have been baked in one day in this oven; the economy of its use, of course, increasing with the number of loaves turned out.
Two batches are baked with a consumption of about 620 cubic feet of gas; costing, at 2s.
We were called up by batches of twenty-five, and shown by gendarmes into a room, around which stood long benches with pegs above them.
For two days the Cathedral was possessed by this motley congregation; then the prisoners were sent off in batches by train from Orleans, and we were glad to get rid of them.
Every day brought us fresh batches of wounded, and with them news of fresh encounters, and skirmishes in the field.
I walked out to the fortifications and saw batches of men throwing up mounds, whilst others were making excavations beneath the mason-work of the permanent bridges, to facilitate their being blown up on the approach of the enemy.
Late that evening, several large batches of wounded came into the Caserne.
The mixer does not blend the various coffees any more surely than a good roaster cylinder will do it, but treats batches of much larger size.
A wholesale plant may be considered to be one in which coffee is roasted in batches of one bag or more at a time; and with this definition, nearly all the roasting in the United States is done in a wholesale way.
The men, after receiving such summary treatment as could be given them at the smaller hospitals in the Crimea itself, were forthwith shipped in batches of 200 across the Black Sea to Scutari.
The prisoners were brought out in batches and shot upon the seashore till 700 of them had been killed.
Whole batches of victims completely unknown to each other were sent off together to the guillotine under pretext of being accomplices in conspiracy.
Similarly, at Diarbekr, the Armenians were collected in batches of 600, taken out of the town, and killed to the last man.
The second group, consisting of able-bodied men, was led off in batches and slaughtered.
Unless the system is a very large one, the expulsion of air is most conveniently effected by forcing from the gasholder preliminary batches of acetylene through the pipes, while lights are kept away from the vicinity.
If, by ignorant design or by careless manipulation, the first batches of acetylene evolved from a freshly charged generator should contain more than 25 per cent.
Besides, newbatches of women arrive every day, women who have just been arrested.
After the hearing--and between the brief adjournments which the Judge granted when I was too exhausted or too ill--batches of letters were handed me.
The next room, V, is for washing small experimental batches of emulsion, and W is the large washing room.
These men were untrained and came over in batches as they were raised.
Then came the baggage animals, who were made to swim the river in batches of four or five at a time.
They were at first sold or rented in batches to the highest bidders.
Hardly a day passed for weeks without papers announcing the discharge of workingmen in batches of thousands at a time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "batches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
