Sentence examples for beat why from inspiring English sources

LURIE (a beat): Why do I feel like you're putting a pig's nose on my face?

If the FTC was already the internet's "cop on the beat," why does the FCC also need to regulate?

If the Miami Heat is ESPN's pet beat, why shouldn't the Nets embrace their coverage on the sites devoted to entertainment and gossip?

Mr. Donaldson, a virtuoso ham, began his remarks complainingly: "I was wondering" — he waited a beat — "why it took so long," and moved on to an elaborate comic riff about old age and the paramount importance of erectile-dysfunction drugs.

Waiting a bit, writes the amiable law-and-finance-prof author, is usually a good idea: he discusses useful delays in the expert actions of fighter pilots, sportspeople and doctors; how comedians place a "beat"; why a "snap apology" can be a bad idea; and how a high-frequency stock-trading system (exploiting the mysteries of fibre-optic cable) got better results when forced to slow down.

Kelefa Sanneh of Blender noted that "will.i.am contributes beats (why?) and rhymes (why, oh, why?) to "The Girl Is Mine 2008" ".

Another response, though, is to say: if you can't beat them, why not join them?

Instead she said, without missing a beat, "Because why wasn't every day the stroller day?" I met the rental mother in the café of a department store.

The fabulous, punchy jazz-funk beat of Why … was more or less a stylistic accident; Gantry's Barry White-esque growl a put-up job.

"If they could beat Coventry, why shouldn't we beat them?

It almost beat out, "Why are you asking me this?" (36%).