Sentence examples for beat rather from inspiring English sources

When he was relaxing into the beat, rather than urging it forward, the results were winsome.

Under Ben Olsen, they're scrappy, compact and hard to beat rather than dominant.

Connacht are now the team to beat rather than an opportunity to field fringe players.

Meikle analyzed these threshers and constructed a strong drum with fixed beaters that beat rather than rubbed the grain.

Meanwhile, he delights in hitting his cymbals as often as possible, and off the beat, rather as jazz and big-band drummers do.

"I'll be playing something that sounds very close to the original, but it will be rearranged into a shuffling beat rather than a straight beat," he said.

Mrs. Court reacted to the beating rather icily, claiming that she had played below her game.

The penalty in that case might be beating rather than hanging".

Mr. Hayes said that during most of the piece, Mr. Bloomberg was gesturing on the beats, rather than preparing the players for what was about to happen.

So far this year there has been just one, and it involved a beating rather than a firearm, says José Beltrame, the security secretary in the Rio state government who is in charge of policing in the city.

But in a career that has made him one of Brazil's top rappers, Marcelo D2 chose two beats rather than one: the samba of Rio de Janeiro, where he was born, and the old-school hip-hop of New York City.