beat back

How To Use beat back In A Sentence

• After graduation, enter the battle of aggressor of beat back Japan for many times.
• Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
• Our soldiers beat back all the attacks of the enemy.
• The repeal is contained in the annual defense authorization bill, currently before the Senate, and Democratic efforts to beat back a threatened Republican filibuster could prove difficult if the GOP wins races in Delaware, Illinois or West Virginia, states currently represented by Democrats and where laws require new senators to take office immediately. Obama joins gay rights groups to discuss 'don't ask, don't tell'
• So we now gonna beat back to whoever offended us in this event.
• Riot police beat back the crowds of demonstrators.
• I wanted to beat back at him, smash flesh and bone'tear" rend" Perhaps the physical weakness left from our long ride was our salvation at that moment. Three Against The Witch World
• Of course, some of them, though indecisive as regards loss and damage, were strategetical victories: thus, Admiral Arbuthnot beat back Admiral Barras off the Chesapeake, in March of 1781; and near the same place in September of the same year the French had their revenge in the victory (one at least in its results) of the Comte de Grasse over Sir Thomas Graves. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
• It could undermine the anti-inflation credibility the Fed won three decades ago by raising interest rates to double-digits to beat back late-1970s price surges. Fed Officials Mull Inflation as a Fix
• Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles. Times, Sunday Times