Sentence examples for beat means from inspiring English sources

And the fact that they are so hard to beat means that up-and-coming politicians usually bide their time and wait for a retirement or open seat rather than do battle with an incumbent.

"Everyone who has lived through a war, any sort of war, knows that beat means, not so much weariness, as rawness of the nerves," said John Clellon Holmes, trying to define the Beat generation in the late 1950s.

All that and a short-term revenue and profit beat means that Microsoft shareholders are enjoying a nice price jump today.

Being a writer on the fake news beat means getting to laugh at a lot of goofy bullshit that doesn't matter like whether or not clowns resent a horror movie.

I'm not about to stop doing what I do, and being on my beat means being on my beat, in my inbox, and up to date on Slack/Gchat/Twitter notifications.

That beat meant that things were basically O.K., that there was nothing to do but wait.

But the rushing camerawork, breakneck editing, compulsion to go, go, go onto the next genre beat mean that there is next to no time for such niceties.

But Mr. Alessandrini's many years on the "Forbidden Broadway" beat mean he knows his way around a musical spoof, and the show lends itself to the kind of bare-bones staging that is standard for the festival.

But those same reasons (I was four months' pregnant, I was trying to buy an apartment, I had just started a new beat) meant that I wasn't about to leave town for beauty treatments any time soon.

Being able to accurately click-and-treat rather than yell and beat meant that dog training could become incredibly precise and the things that we now find the dog capable of are pretty much limitless.

Beating means mixing vigorously to get air into the cake.