How to Use browbeat in a Sentence

browbeat

verb

• His father likes to browbeat waiters and waitresses.
• Who is going to feel boastful after this matchup of the browbeaten?
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• Unlike the press, the coronavirus cannot be browbeaten.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 6 May 2020
• 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
• In addition to this, cases have been filed against her in courts to browbeat and intimidate her.
  — Basav Biradar, Quartz India, 2 Aug. 2020
• 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
• But knowing isn’t going to protect us from a man hellbent on browbeating black women.
  — Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue, 24 Oct. 2017
• For months, Donald Trump has been browbeating on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 7 June 2019
• There’s his boss (Robin Wright), who alternates between browbeating him and making passes at him.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 9 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• My siblings invited me out to visit them and proceeded to browbeat me into leaving him.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 June 2022
• Yet the left still catastrophizes these events in an attempt to browbeat unruly voters into submission.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Not to browbeat or criticize others who come at that history with differing views.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• This can be read as a statement: It will not be browbeaten into political correctness.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
• Chinese demands for respect are in part a ploy, a passive-aggressive bid to browbeat foreign critics into silence.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• And there were people like Malcolm who browbeat kids into adopting extremist beliefs.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
• 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
• Moscow is browbeating foreign firms by seizing their assets in Russia.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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