How to Use beating in a Sentence

beating

noun
  • Straight, to the point, and no beating around the bush.
    — Tanay Howard, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
  • There’s no beating around the bush: the snow out East is hard.
    — Krista Crabtree, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
  • And luckily, a lot of the stunts are in the car, so the car has to take the beating.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
  • The bruises of beatings still show on the soles of his feet and back.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Yep, the strike saved the Rangers from further beatings.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • About the beating of the young man who went on to become Rep. John Lewis.
    — Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The video that captured the beating came from Osama Abu Asa’s car.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Chargers, the Padres are the city’s beating sports heart.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And the suburbs seemed to always come in for a beating.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The beatings took place as often as two or three times a week.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • For her, Nichols' beating and death brought tears all over again.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • In 2024, the mom was seen on a video beating on the dad who she’s now accused of killing, but the charges were dropped.
    — Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
  • This year all 12 racers took a beating from the get-go on April 2.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Booker, 22, was found shot to death the month after the beating.
    — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The release comes on the five-month anniversary of the Oct. 28 beating.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Troops in the trenches have been taking a beating of late.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The frantic beating against the locked door in my mind grew louder.
    — Lane Scott Jones, Longreads, 25 June 2024
  • Nichols, who is Black, died three days after the beating.
    — Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Tyson suffered a brain bleed and damage to his frontal lobe from the beating.
    — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who worked for FedEx, died three days after the beating.
    — Liam Quinn, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The beating went too far, and the girl was fatally injured.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • Taking one for the team: During the third penalty kill of night, the Stars’ killers took a beating.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 6 May 2021
  • He was then bound by the wrists and subjected to beatings, electric shock and a hit to the head from a gun.
    — Mark Crudele, ABC News, 27 May 2025
  • Richard said that the beatings continued in the car on the way home after the dinner.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 May 2025
  • Sadat shared a video with CNN of the beating, taken by the man in secret.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Boone, 37, was one of five white officers charged in the beating.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Child 2 has a scar on an eyelid when they was struck by a nail in a board during the beating.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Dallas outshot the Red Wings 52-17, a beating that failed to show up on the scoreboard thanks to Bernier.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Yet this was far from the first time stocks have taken a beating in recent years.
    — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The inmates agreed to end the strike in exchange for an assurance that the beatings would stop.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 24 July 2025

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