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Example sentences for: beat

How can you use “beat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Taniguchi's quiet, thorough style (steeped in Japanese modernism) beat out more flamboyant entrants.
I couldn't hear the accent on the beat.
Black students were beat up at school.
Yesterday, in a piece about new presidential advisor Sidney Blumenthal, the NYT 's Alison Mitchell wrote that the New Republic referred to Blumenthal with the line, "A beat is just an assignment but a slut is who you've become maybe."
7 percent) for an off-year election, making the whole drama unspool like a Frank Capra movie: The little guys beat the fat cats, only the little guys were right-wing Republicans instead of good government liberals.