How to Use browbeat in a Sentence

browbeat

verb
  • His father likes to browbeat waiters and waitresses.
  • This might take a series of browbeating prompts, but that’s not a big deal.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Who is going to feel boastful after this matchup of the browbeaten?
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • His browbeating nature is one the Leafs have needed for years.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Some of them used that stage to browbeat Democratic politicians.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In addition to this, cases have been filed against her in courts to browbeat and intimidate her.
    — Basav Biradar, Quartz India, 2 Aug. 2020
  • But knowing isn’t going to protect us from a man hellbent on browbeating black women.
    — Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But that bar was browbeaten by critics into pausing and then canceling the project.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • As Pharrell sees it, the way forward to send out these messages isn't by browbeating people with them.
    — Pete Forester, Esquire, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Not to browbeat or criticize others who come at that history with differing views.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Davies more or less browbeat her into terminating the pregnancy, and dropped out of college.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • My siblings invited me out to visit them and proceeded to browbeat me into leaving him.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 June 2022
  • Note that generative AI did not try to browbeat me or otherwise attempt to crush my soul.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Yet the left still catastrophizes these events in an attempt to browbeat unruly voters into submission.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Moscow is browbeating foreign firms by seizing their assets in Russia.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2023
  • And there were people like Malcolm who browbeat kids into adopting extremist beliefs.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • There’s his boss (Robin Wright), who alternates between browbeating him and making passes at him.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Chinese demands for respect are in part a ploy, a passive-aggressive bid to browbeat foreign critics into silence.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Why not, then, look to technocratic Caesars like Moses to browbeat the opposition and get things done?
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • While researchers get a better handle on the science, campaigners badger politicians and browbeat consumers to kick the polymer habit.
    — The Economist, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Trump's efforts to browbeat are unlikely to overcome these limitations.
    — Joshua Geltzer and Jon Finer, CNN, 10 June 2017
  • This, at least, is the feeling reflected in the growing popularity of a word once used to browbeat liberals and leftists.
    — Beverly Gage, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Politicians like Bernie Sanders were browbeaten into backing an ever-more open-borders position.
    — David French, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Namely, that the way to elicit compliance from both adversaries and allies is to browbeat them, threaten them and economically coerce them.
    — Carol Morello, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2017
  • The team from Beijing rushed together guides on treating patients and helped browbeat local officials into shuttering the market.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • During a party celebrating the release of one of her books, Hartman browbeats a guest for not paying sufficient attention to the photographs on the wall.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • The originals are in Mexico City and elsewhere, and even in reproduction their browbeating dynamic comes through.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
  • In Kansas, specifically, there is the idea of homeschooling is more of browbeating someone with a Bible and less of learning environment.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
  • We media types have been browbeaten by the Associated Press to call it daylight saving time, even though most everyone else uses the plural form in daily speech.
    — Dwight Adams, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Goldman was at the forefront of the derivatives-trading boom that sowed the seeds of the financial crisis, and emerged browbeaten but intact, having avoided the billion-dollar losses that hit rivals.
    — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 17 July 2018

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