Sentence examples for but it beat from inspiring English sources
Music sales continued to slide last week, with another dubious victory for the soundtrack to "Dreamgirls" (Sony): it is on the top of the Billboard chart for the second time in a row, but it beat its own record for the lowest sales for a No. 1 album since SoundScan began tracking music purchases 16 years ago.
Being Boris Karloff, synonym for corruption, death and evil, may have had its drawbacks, but it beat being a question mark.
Apple had guided its gross margin to be between 38.5% and 39.5% but it beat the high-end by 40 basis points coming in at 39.9%.
Cable's net income dropped 8percentto to $272 million, but it beat analysts' forecasts.
But it beat the rest of the day's agenda, which was simply to sit and keep watch.
It wasn't easy to keep them all straight, but it beat trying to figure out where we were going.
Perhaps, but it beats the alternative.
But it beats staying behind.
But it beats where they came from.
