Sentence examples for were beat from inspiring English sources
verb
To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
- As soon as she heard that Wiktionary was shutting down, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
Dogs were beat, children too.
"We were beat bad," Father Cascia said.
"We were beat by a grown-man team.
If we crossed certain streets, over into Schiller Park for instance, we were beat up".
"They still do O.K., but this year they were beat in Pennsylvania by Pittsburgh.
By now, it was nearly 5 p.m. and we were beat.
He and Earl met during a ninth-grade field trip, when Loofy and some friends were beat-boxing and freestyling, and Earl started rapping.
The restaurant is every bit a brand extension, so it seemed strange that Armani's brand of impeccability didn't extend to the menus (which were beat-up), the central white staircase (dirty, scratched), or the reservations system (a piece of loose-leaf paper, apparently).
We were beating ourselves.
"They were beating everyone.
"And they were beating me," he continued.
