Sentence examples for beat pedestrian from inspiring English sources

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Mutual funds, while more tightly regulated than their boisterous siblings, are acquiring hedge funds and adopting some of their behaviour, such as the use of leverage, short-selling (betting on a price falling) and derivatives.Ironically, they are doing this after a period in which hedge funds have struggled to beat pedestrian index-trackers.

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On the contrary, when the light turns green, many drivers try to beat pedestrians in crosswalks, cutting dangerously close to people, often with the apparent intention of frightening them out of their path.

Players take on the roles of ex-cons, roaming a city, carrying out depraved missions for the mob, killing cops, picking up prostitutes, beating pedestrians senseless with a bat -- in short, affecting the worst kind of urban mayhem, short of inflating stock prices.

Strapping your character to a flying gas tank, or beating pedestrians to death with a gigantic flopping dildo, are not.

Eight years later, he beat a pedestrian in Midtown with a nightstick because the man banged the roof of his cab in heavy traffic.

Gunpoint holdup, beating of pedestrian was near R Street NW.

Riot police officers on motorcycles threatened to beat groups of pedestrians who failed to disperse on command.

Starting out to write sturdier songs at the time of the Platters, Drifters and Bobby Vee, she naively tries bogus tempos, pedestrian beats and missing harmonies until she meets and marries slick, sexy Elvis clone Gerry Goffin, compromising her career with an unfaithful husband and a needy child.

She celebrates the metaphysical rhythm of the pedestrian, the iamb of the "I am", the beat of the placed and lifted foot.

But something as pedestrian as a beat?

It's a bit pedestrian.

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