Words similar to beating

Example sentences for: beating

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

They came within a few hundred votes of beating Brown in 1996.
But now that he has apologized and taken a beating, he is gradually recovering the right to open his mouth again.
Here are a few of the methods of child-restraint practiced by our forefathers and foremothers--many of whom were patriotic, religious, and of high moral character: swaddling their children, depriving them of food (it was thought to keep babies quiet), tying them to chairs, and beating them severely.
He compares his moral duty to rail against abortion to his moral duty to intervene if he saw a man on the street beating his child with a club.
The expression does not begin with the conjunction y `and'; moreover, the concept of “not having hair on one's tongue” does not exactly mean `I'm telling what I think' but rather `I'm telling it like it is' or `I'm not beating about the bush.