Examples of beating in a Sentence
he wears a pacemaker to help maintain a regular beating of his heart
took a beating and ended up in second place
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On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
San Jose police detectives allege that one of the defendants, 44-year-old San Jose resident Juan Flores-Gonzalez, suffered a beating by the victim in April.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
In a 31-14 beating of Dallas two weeks ago, Williams was not sacked for the first time in his career.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
You weren’t allowed to paint your culture, you weren’t allowed to dance, you weren’t allowed to cook your food, do your drum beating, any of that.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
San Jose police detectives allege that one of the defendants, 44-year-old San Jose resident Juan Flores-Gonzalez, suffered a beating by the victim in April.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
In a 31-14 beating of Dallas two weeks ago, Williams was not sacked for the first time in his career.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
You weren’t allowed to paint your culture, you weren’t allowed to dance, you weren’t allowed to cook your food, do your drum beating, any of that.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for beating
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“Beating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beating. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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