Sentence examples for beating a record from inspiring English sources

In 1999, Combs was charged with beating a record executive with a chair, a telephone, and a champagne bottle (hip-hop has a weakness for leaden symbolism).

Zayn Malik's debut single "Pillowtalk" has gone straight to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, beating a record held by One Direction in the process.

Bieber has become the first artist ever to log four weeks at Numbers 1 and 2 consecutively, beating a record previously set by The Beatles.

The fire complex burning in north-central Washington is now the largest in state history, beating a record set just last year in the same county.

The nomination extends Miramax's streak to 11 best-picture nominations in 10 years, beating a record held by Warner Brothers, which had 10 from 1955 to 1964.

Billboard notes that "Prism" sold more than the next eight titles combined, and album sales over all reached a new weekly low of 4.49 million — beating a record set only in September, when it was 4.54 million.

I didn't go there to beat a record.

The social network site beat a record set by Google for the speed with which it joined the elite list.

Night Of Thunder beat a record field of 15 rivals here to win the Lockinge Stakes, the first Group One for older horses of the British season.

The carbon already emitted by burning fossil fuels has driven significant global warming, with 2016 near certain to succeed 2015 as the hottest year ever recorded, which itself beat a record year in 2014.

It reached 779,295 retweets in approximately half an hour, and so beat a record previously held by the US president, when he tweeted an image titled "Four more years" at the point of his re-election in November 2012.