Sentence examples for it certainly beat from inspiring English sources

It certainly beat the scene down the hall, where a season's hopes were packed in brown boxes and sealed shut with tape.

It certainly beat sitting around and thinking about the Knicks and how they're trying to kill the N.B.A., a situation so grim that Donnie Walsh, the team president, was moved to blame himself for everything, which is sort of like General Motors trying to take the fall for global warming.

Speaking of which – it certainly beats its BBC3 stablemate Gavin and Stacey, albeit in a lo-fi kind of way.

It certainly beats any history lesson.

It certainly beats almost every alternative.

And it certainly beats the alternative.

It certainly beats spam any day".

"It certainly beats using the road.

It certainly beats digging a ditch.

It certainly beats putting up an electrified fence.

It certainly beats a draughty methodist hall by the morgue.