How to Use browbeat in a Sentence
browbeat
verb- His father likes to browbeat waiters and waitresses.
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Who is going to feel boastful after this matchup of the browbeaten?
—Bill Pennington, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
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Unlike the press, the coronavirus cannot be browbeaten.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 May 2020
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As Pharrell sees it, the way forward to send out these messages isn't by browbeating people with them.
—Pete Forester, Esquire, 28 Aug. 2017
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In addition to this, cases have been filed against her in courts to browbeat and intimidate her.
—Basav Biradar, Quartz India, 2 Aug. 2020
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Why not, then, look to technocratic Caesars like Moses to browbeat the opposition and get things done?
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
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But knowing isn’t going to protect us from a man hellbent on browbeating black women.
—Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue, 24 Oct. 2017
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For months, Donald Trump has been browbeating on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
—Oliver Staley, Quartz, 7 June 2019
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There’s his boss (Robin Wright), who alternates between browbeating him and making passes at him.
—Scott Meslow, GQ, 9 Oct. 2017
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This, at least, is the feeling reflected in the growing popularity of a word once used to browbeat liberals and leftists.
—Beverly Gage, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
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While researchers get a better handle on the science, campaigners badger politicians and browbeat consumers to kick the polymer habit.
—The Economist, 3 Mar. 2018
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My siblings invited me out to visit them and proceeded to browbeat me into leaving him.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 June 2022
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Yet the left still catastrophizes these events in an attempt to browbeat unruly voters into submission.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
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Pretty much all of the world still runs on older generations—4G, 3G, and even 2G. Telecom companies can’t just ditch those consumers, or browbeat them into buying fancier smartphones.
—Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2019
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Not to browbeat or criticize others who come at that history with differing views.
—Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
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During a party celebrating the release of one of her books, Hartman browbeats a guest for not paying sufficient attention to the photographs on the wall.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
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On the left, activists inspired by Sanders's 2016 presidential bid intend to browbeat Democrats who don't back Sanders's and Conyers's legislation.
—David Weigel, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
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This can be read as a statement: It will not be browbeaten into political correctness.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
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Chinese demands for respect are in part a ploy, a passive-aggressive bid to browbeat foreign critics into silence.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
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And there were people like Malcolm who browbeat kids into adopting extremist beliefs.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
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If China can browbeat foreign firms so easily now, what will the status quo look like two or three decades from now, when the habits and demands of the Chinese middle-class consumer will have an even greater impact on the global economy?
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
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Moscow is browbeating foreign firms by seizing their assets in Russia.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2023
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We media types have been browbeaten by the Associated Press to call it daylight saving time, even though most everyone else uses the plural form in daily speech.
—Dwight Adams, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2018
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On Tuesday this column noted the valiant attempt by a Washington Post columnist to browbeat consumers into feeling guilty for wanting products to be available on store shelves.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
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Republicans are preparing once again to make the deficit a major issue, to pin all the blame for it on the Biden administration—and to browbeat Democrats into putting aside their agenda and embrace deficit reduction.
—Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
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Goldman was at the forefront of the derivatives-trading boom that sowed the seeds of the financial crisis, and emerged browbeaten but intact, having avoided the billion-dollar losses that hit rivals.
—Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 17 July 2018
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Namely, that the way to elicit compliance from both adversaries and allies is to browbeat them, threaten them and economically coerce them.
—Carol Morello, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2017
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The originals are in Mexico City and elsewhere, and even in reproduction their browbeating dynamic comes through.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
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The team from Beijing rushed together guides on treating patients and helped browbeat local officials into shuttering the market.
—New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
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Politicians like Bernie Sanders were browbeaten into backing an ever-more open-borders position.
—David French, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
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