Example sentences for: beaten

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

  • But what it amounted to was putting yourself forward to be beaten, possibly to death, day after day, week after week, month after month.

  • I think, for example, of 15-year-old June Johnson, who joined Bob Moses and his "troublemakers" (as her mother called them) in an excursion to Selma, only to wind up beaten by authorities in a Winona, Miss.

  • The Post says another was beaten with a wet rope and a nightstick, and says the authorities are using heavy fines as a prime weapon in this campaign of suppression.

  • Speaking of eggs, why do we English speakers talk of the egg white when it is really clear until it is cooked or beaten?

  • He had beaten Newton to the theory of gravity and Copernicus to heliocentrism.


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