6 sentences with 'beat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word beat and other words derived from it.
• « Tiberius Gracchus ran for a second term as tribune, something no one had ever done before, and a group of senators beat him to death in 133 BCE. »
• « For his part, Stalin did not think Hitler would be foolish enough to try to invade the Soviet Union, especially before Germany had actually "won" in the West. In 1939, Stalin informed his advisers that "The war will be fought between two groups of capitalist states... we have nothing against it if they beat and weaken each other. It would be no bad thing if Germany were to take out the richer capitalist countries (particularly England)". »
• « The USSR controlled the governments of all the countries of Eastern Europe, with the odd exception of Yugoslavia, and had considerable influence almost everywhere else in the world. Its factories produced military hardware at an enormous rate, even its scientists proved equal to anything the West could produce, and its athletes often beat all comers in the Olympics every four years. »
• « At the end of the gorge they came to a sea of boulders. They scattered to climb them, and for several hours they beat their knees and scraped their hands until they were raw. »
• « Suddenly I was no longer the ugly Patricia Louise, but a Billie Holiday who mesmerised the audience; a Nina Simone who captivated the crowd; a Cinderella with a band and a beat of her own. »