How to Use beat back in a Sentence

beat back

phrasal verb

• To beat back the Russians and their mastermind Vladimir Putin.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 18 June 2023
• But Democrats say the move is more about beating back the far right than saving Johnson.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 7 May 2024
• The drugs have beaten back all but one tumor in Monje’s lung.
  — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
• From Kyiv to Kharkiv, its troops were being beaten back by Ukrainian forces.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• But in the following months, Bragg beat back legal challenges.
  — Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Most of the time, Black on Black crime is invoked not in a sincere way, but rather it's used as a cudgel with which to beat back talk about police violence.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• Biden has been beating back calls to step away from the ticket as the Democrats’ August national convention nears.
  — Julia Mueller, The Hill, 9 July 2024
• In the fields As soon as Russian troops were beaten back from the lands surrounding Kyiv in March 2022, the region’s farmers came rushing back to try to salvage their crops.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• The contentious deal took two years to complete, and the companies were forced to sell most of Shaw’s wireless business for less than C$3 billion to beat back an antitrust case.
  — Derek Decloet, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• And if so, how dissimilar is that impulse from the hope that my writing can beat back a fate of inconsequence for me.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• At nightfall, local officials put out an urgent call for volunteers to head out the next morning to beat back the fire.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• In the days since the deal was agreed upon, Democrats have been touting it as a home run for their priorities that beat back GOP efforts to exact spending cuts.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• Time after time, this damn disease was beaten back to hell by a man who had no give-up in him, a man who should be a Hall of Famer, a man who did so much for three of the game’s franchises.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
• What Lula Can Do Lula has a track record of beating back pro-deforestation forces.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2022
• Amazon has beat back unionization efforts in places like the Albany area and Alabama.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• Governors for six decades have tried to build this project in some form or another and been beaten back by grassroots activists or state voters.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• The bills are intended to beat back a deadly substance that has infiltrated much of the illicit drug supply in the United States.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Few believed Ukraine could ever beat back its attacker.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
• Johnson's allies pleaded with the speaker in April to change the rules to beat back Greene's effort and any other possible future removal threats.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
• The man on the sidewalk appears to struggle to sit up, only to be beaten back down, according to the video, which was reviewed by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2023
• America’s startups deserve much of the credit for beating back Covid-19.
  — Jennifer C. Cheng, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• But Raziq beat back the suicide bombers and brought stability to Kandahar.
  — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Later that year, the governor would handily beat back a recall effort.
  — Vik Jolly, Sacramento Bee, 8 May 2024
• Experts beat back the idea from some residents and colleagues that the National Hurricane Center got Francine's forecast wrong.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• Attorneys for Trump have tried to beat back the suit by calling into question the estate's ownership of the copyright and by also raising a fair use argument.
  — Alana Wise, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
• The stock market has been beating back worries about an imminent recession.
  — Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Not only was the initial Russian thrust toward Kyiv beaten back, but also much of the combat since has occurred within a few hundred miles of the Russian-Ukrainian border.
  — Justin Logan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
• Verna’s parents, like many of their generation, spoke German at home, and her father was educated in a one-room schoolhouse where a wood stove was used to beat back the cold Iowa winters.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had beaten back a large overnight offensive, inflicting heavy losses.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 8 June 2023
• Trump still remains the front-runner, while DeSantis is attempting to beat back Haley’s increasing rise to second place.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024