batten

Example Sentences

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"We see a leader who's really battening down and hardening his country for this struggle to overtake the United States as the world's leading power," he added, referring to Xi.

From Reuters

Another said: "We are all battening down the hatches... it's indefensible"

From BBC

Now, with the emergence of the Omicron variant, Japan, along with Australia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea, is quickly battening down again.

From New York Times

On the first day of a holiday weekend named for a seafaring man, Washington’s skies seemed appropriately overcast, as if telling us to batten the hatches in anticipation of heavy weather.

From Washington Post

Logically, one would have thought this would be the perfect time to batten down the hatches and try to make the best of a bad job.

From BBC