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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:

Stockholders were not impressed: Investors beat the stock down 15 percent, lowering its market capitalization by $4 billion, to $24 billion.
In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."
Beat on the Brat
Alone in her kitchen with her cutting board, she seems to be smelling her own faint over-ripeness; when Mortensen holds his stare a beat too long, her body bends toward his as if it knows, on a cellular level, that this way lies nourishment.
To beat the partisanship rap, several Republican leaders are invoking Democrats as their allies against Clinton.