Sentence examples for beats against from inspiring English sources

Back in her room, a cold rain beats against the window.

The play of cross-rhythm -- the frictions of two beats against three, or three against four -- is everywhere.

We are fortunate to have a chance to escape the fate of other coastal states where the beaches are gone and the ocean beats against stone walls.

Like Balanchine (like Ashton, too, actually), he is superlatively musical, and works in easy intimacy with his scores, tucking steps between the beats, against the beat, and then, when he needs to, coming down, smack, on the beat.

The feet may be crisscrossing in the air, or a foot may be making rapid beats against the knee of the other leg, but meanwhile the torso is tipping this way or that, and powerfully.

The lumbering riff pits three guitar beats against two drumbeats, executing a Sisyphean march that cycles over and over without becoming tiresome; on the record, it is the shortest eight-and-a-half-minute song I know.

Boats beating against the current.

would beat against my palm like butterflies.

Waves beat against the vessel, knocking two people overboard.

Back and forth the gaze beating against unseeable and unmakeable.

In vain will she beat against the bars.