Sentence examples for beating them off from inspiring English sources

It's not like I'm not beating them off with a stick or anything.

The work is not dangerous, though it demands full days and is painstaking: picking each fruit individually, rather than beating them off the branches with batons, you discover muscles you never knew you had.

A team must attack the Huskies, beat them off the dribble, said Harry Perretta of Villanova.

The men beat them off with oars and even managed to kill a couple -- and eat their livers.

"We got offensive rebounds the whole game, but we weren't able to attack; we weren't able to beat them off the dribble".

Instead of containing the Pacers, Chris Childs and Charlie Ward let Travis Best (24 points) beat them off the dribble and Mark Jackson (11 points, 7 assists) bludgeon them in the post.

The extremists also have attacked a town and villages across the border in Cameroon, but that country's state radio said Cameroonian troops beat them off and forced them back across the border into Nigeria.

When the BNP shockingly won 12 council seats, those open-door meetings dealing with everyday grievances saw her make the case and beat them off, so the BNP lost every seat.

Curtis Sittenfeld is right about the aphrodisiacal effects that writing a book bestows on men: for years after Ohio State University Press published my 1967 book, "The Organization of American States and U.S. Foreign Policy," I couldn't beat them off with a stick.

Good God, I had to beat them off with a stick.

For the past four years, this vast country has been torn and eviscerated by its smaller neighbours, but has been too weak to beat them off.