beat down

How To Use beat down In A Sentence

• The sun beat down with fierce intensity.
• My father had a real anger management problem, so I was steeling myself for a real beat down when I heard him speak. Robin Quivers: I Didn't Tell!
• The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
• I have seen a girl, perhaps not more than twenty, also lacking textbooks, exercise books, biros, seen her teach the A B C by scratching the letters in the dirt with a stick, while the sun beat down and the dust swirled. Doris Lessing - Nobel Lecture
• Readers and other members of the public, sensing a clear impulse to beat down an unfavourable report, must have suspected some truth was giving offence.
• The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
• He looked at it suspiciously, and as he grabbed for it, the thunder only began to clamor loudly, sending more rain to beat down on the mansion.
• I have seen a girl – perhaps not more than 20, also lacking textbooks, exercise books, biros – teach the ABC by scratching the letters in the dirt with a stick, while the sun beat down and the dust swirled. Doris lessing | a hunger for books « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• The weaponry is then used partly to beat down the insurgency. Times, Sunday Times
• The sun beat down mercilessly on the dry earth.