But one night a head wind struck us, and the sea rose against us with huge waves; the billows sorely buffetted us and a dense darkness settled round us.
Then he rent his raiment and plucked out his beard and, casting his turband from off his head, buffetted his face till the blood ran down and he cried aloud, "Alas, my children!
Seeing the Prince struggling and drowning in the waves I cried out and screamed and buffetted my face and tare my hair and would fain have cast myself into the waters but I could not, for he held me fast and lashed me to the mainmast.
Do you know that you have no right to say Karl Hubers was mocked by fate, made sport of, buffetted about?
Made great only to have his greatness buffetted about like--held up for sport!
The sea-wind buffetted their faces, it lifted Susanna's hair and blew stray locks about her temples, it summoned a lively colour to her cheeks.
Suddenly as the twain passed by Trent's refuge the count buffetted his secretary on the head.
For an uneasy moment the count remembered that not many minutes earlier he had buffetted this quiet, grim fighter, this same man who hit his opponent at will and evaded his enemy's blows with practised ease.
The pain occasioned by the angry elements, and the cold iron of the shafts of frost which buffetted me, and entered my aching flesh, were a relief to me; blunting my mental suffering.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffetted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
