Sentence examples for beat upon from inspiring English sources
Jesus hit the nail squarely on the head when he compared "a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock" to "a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell".
"That William Blake," he wrote, "Who beat upon the wall/Till truth obeyed".
At City Hall, while the crowd beat upon the doors shouting threats, the two officers demanded the city's surrender.
"She's my great help and adviser," he said, at which she said, "Aww!" and gently beat upon his shoulder with an affectionate, paw-like gesture.
The pacing is nicely varied: "Mud" follows Langston Hughes's mellow "April Rain Song" ("Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops").
(I claim to be the originator of the nickname, having used it in an article on Nov. 1, 1991, after making a brief return to the Nets beat upon joining The New York Times).
(The band members maintain that they still want to be called a trio no matter how many members ultimately join, in order to continue referencing the three-beat meter upon which so much of the music is based).
If a gunshot victim's heart is still beating upon arrival at a hospital, there is a 95percentt chance of survival, Dr. DiMaio said.
He nearly had to shout to be heard above the construction moans rising from the muck pit, and the thumping of rain beating upon his altar made of 2-by-4's.
I have spent the last few hours floating on my back in the gently rolling gulf waters, something that is impossible to do in the pounding Atlantic, which beats upon Florida's much more popular (and therefore, to me, much less desirable) east coast beaches.
Since March 1917, when the roaring torrents of workmen and soldiers beating upon the Tauride Palace compelled the reluctant imperial duma to assume the supreme power in Russia, it was the masses of the people, workers, soldiers and peasants that forced every change in the course of the revolution.
