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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Nonetheless, Gaetz teamed up with many caucus members to oppose McCarthy as speaker in January and does little to beat back the perception that he is allied with the group.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 18 July 2023
• And cultural forces are almost impossible to beat back.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• In villages in the northeastern Evros region, desperate residents on foot or riding scooters rushed to beat back fires only to watch bigger ones rise up around them.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Western governments, led by former colonial power France, had for years been helping the Sahelian countries try to beat back the militants.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• New York faced similar challenges with a burgeoning illicit market that the governor is still trying to beat back.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• Taiwan is beating back efforts to subvert Saturday’s vote.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
• The toll included some of the formidable Western fighting machines — tanks and armored personnel carriers — that the Ukrainians were counting on to beat back the Russians.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• At least five members of a rogue security brigade seeking the ouster of Haiti’s prime minister died Wednesday in an exchange of gunfire with police, who spent a third day beating back violent protests across the country.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Despite his own efforts and those of other science advocates, Hotez sees only minor glimmers of hope that the trend toward science skepticism can be beaten back.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Public health experts have said the combination of people changing their behaviors and a strong vaccination campaign helped beat back the disease.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2023
• But Missouri Republicans moved swiftly on Thursday to beat back possible change.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024