How to Use beat back in a Sentence
beat back
phrasal verb-
The stock market has been beating back worries about an imminent recession.
— Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 -
She’s successfully beaten back charges of hypocrisy and bandwagon feminism, and her star can continue to shine.
— Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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
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