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Beating
"Beating" in a Sentence (17 examples)
I waited for the curtain to rise with my heart beating in excitement.
Stop beating around the bush and give it to me straight!
Please stop beating around the bush and come straight to the point.
Stop beating around the bush and get to the point.
Stop beating around the bush and tell me what happened.
Instead of beating around the bush, Jones got straight to the point.
The rain is beating against the window.
The rain is beating against the windows.
The rain was beating hard against the windowpane.
The rain was beating against the windows.
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the beating of a drum
secret beatings of prisoners
[…] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]
“It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.
The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.
Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.
To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.
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