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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:

In both polls, Center Party candidate Yitzhak Mordechai is slipping: He gets 8 percent from Gallup and 10 percent from Dahaf although--paradoxically and theoretically--he would still beat Netanyahu in the second round.
Keynes writes, "The actual, private object of the most skilled investment today is to 'beat the gun,' as the Americans so well express it, to outwit the crowd, and to pass the bad, or depreciating, half-crown to the other fellow."
"It was one zeal to beat Garry Kasparov.
Sometimes a human operator can beat the automatic system by a small amount, but the following example is typical.
Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."