Beat

He, […]with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.

a beat of the heart

the beat of the pulse

I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!

to walk the beat

There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.

[…]the rise of embedding police into schools – so-called School Resource Officers (SROs), who are employed by the local police, but whose “beat” is a school. Those officers report to the local police department and not the school, and can, and frequently do, have different priorities.

"We are looking at being able to fly [drones] tens of miles from base, which is going to make a huge difference. It is the equivalent of having bobbies on the beat."

As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.

It's a beat on the whole country.

the beat of him

a dead beat

“If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.

Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.

She made sure to give fans all the details about her beat in the caption.

As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.

Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall […]

The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.

In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.

The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.

He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

[…] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]

The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die.

This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves.

Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below.

What tale do the roaring ocean, / And the nightwind, bleak and wild, / As they beat at the crazy casement, / Tell to that little child?

A thousand hearts beat happily.

O heart, how fares it with thee now, ⁠That thou should’st fail from thy desire, ⁠Who scarcely darest to inquire, ‘What is it makes me beat so low?’

Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.

No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.

I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.

There's nothing in this world beats a 52 Vincent and a red-headed girl.

The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.

Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

While I this unexampled task essay, / Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way, / Celestial Dove! divine assistance bring, / Sustain me on thy strong-extended wing,

I know not why any one should waste his time, and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does not intend to be a critick, or make speeches, and write dispatches in it.

to still my beating mind

The drums beat.

The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

He beat me there.

The place is empty; we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.

Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

Millie B gets ten shags a week. New day, different guy, that's just peek. You can't name a guy that you haven't tried to beat. You can't name a guy that you haven't tried to beat.

He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.

I already beat him, but he hasn't realized it yet.

When one of 'em runs up a bill here, then goes off and deals somewhere else, and dodges me every time he sees me, that's the man I'm after with a sharp stick. [...] Honest people often get into tight places, and we would rather help 'em than hurt 'em then. But some just try to beat you.

After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

I stayed in San Francisco a week and had the beatest time of my life. Marylou and I walked around for miles, looking for food-money.

Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.

Her face was beat for the gods!

The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.

beat poetry