How to Use beating in a Sentence

beating

noun

• Straight, to the point, and no beating around the bush.
  — Tanay Howard, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
• There’s no beating around the bush: the snow out East is hard.
  — Krista Crabtree, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
• Yep, the strike saved the Rangers from further beatings.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• The video that captured the beating came from Osama Abu Asa’s car.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
• The beatings took place as often as two or three times a week.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• For her, Nichols' beating and death brought tears all over again.
  — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2023
• The release comes on the five-month anniversary of the Oct. 28 beating.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
• Troops in the trenches have been taking a beating of late.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
• The frantic beating against the locked door in my mind grew louder.
  — Lane Scott Jones, Longreads, 25 June 2024
• Nichols, who is Black, died three days after the beating.
  — Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2023
• Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who worked for FedEx, died three days after the beating.
  — Liam Quinn, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• The beating went too far, and the girl was fatally injured.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• For years, none of them knew the origins of his expertise: a beating in Auschwitz.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• He was charged as a juvenile in both the house party and park beatings.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024
• The wigs and hairpieces took a real beating being in the water for 10 hours a day.
  — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2022
• When Ricky Gervais was the host, Hollywood took a bit of a beating.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
• The truck takes a beating on the gravel and dirt road on multiple round trips of more than 30 miles most days.
  — Fox News, 16 Sep. 2022
• From the ground are heard the attendant booms, the wail of air raid sirens, and the beating of footsteps running to shelter.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
• The song’s title comes from an Édith Piaf song and represents the sound of a heart beating.
  — Vulture, 14 June 2023
• Nichols would die from his injuries three days after the beating.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 29 Jan. 2023
• Set it on the counter for at least half an hour, then give it a good beating with the mixer to loosen it up before adding the pumpkin puree.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 June 2023
• The beating is so severe that Dana — fearing for her own life — is pulled back to the present, where mere minutes have passed.
  — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• The head conveniently tilts, the bowl locks to its base, and there are 10 speeds that range from slow stirring to high beating.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2023
• Officials said the EMTs failed to render aid to Nichols, who died three days after the beating.
  — Adrian Sainz, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
• Video of the beating was posted online and widely shared.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024
• Staff then stopped the beating using pepper spray and a baton strike.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2024
• The facts: After the beating, officers propped Nichols against a police car, and one asked the fire department to come to the scene.
  — Ashley Parker and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Four teens have agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter charges in the fatal beating of a Las Vegas teen.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2024
• The settlement approved last week alleged that the state had failed to protect Canter from Santana, leading to the June 2019 beating.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 4 Nov. 2024
• My sisters and brothers of the Fourth Estate have taken a brutal beating in these treacherous political times.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024