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persuade the seller to accept a lower price
She beat the merchant down $100 -
dislodge from a position
She beat the dealer down to a much better price -
shine hard
The sun beat down on the hikers
How To Use beat down In A Sentence
- Dude, I REALLY want to learn some sort of self-defense art … you know, the kind of thing that would ACTUALLY WORK if you got jacked, as opposed to doing Karate kicks and then getting your ass beat down by a big grappler. How to fail at your goals | Johnny B. Truant
- Thor showed the invincibility of a god as he refused to go down after receiving a few beat downs from the Hulk. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1089
- Then the road got worse, the shade diminished allowing the sun to beat down mercilessly, and the gradient steepened as the corkscrew twists became sharper and sharper.
- Beat down the seller to the price that suits you.
- As the sun beat down on Sicily last summer, there was the traditional water shortage and the luckless residents of Palermo knew who to blame.
- But, what's annoying is the notion of Williams as some new racial cause célèbre, that his case was a multimedia Rodney King beat down by a bad blue NPR getting happy with microphone nightsticks. Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre'
- As the sun beat down on the showground, tens of thousands of visitors meandered among the stalls, some taking shelter in the shade to enjoy an organic ice cream or one of the tempting local beverages.
- He swept his long hair back from his face with his hand, perching his foot on the raised edge of the flat roof and resting his elbow casually on his knee as the noon sun beat down upon them both.
- Then there was the time I called a bouncer a rockstar and it turned out he didn't like being called a rockstar and he beat me up only for me to tell him while bloody as fuck that he just proved he's a fucking rockstar only to get me beat down some more. DrunkenStepfather - Celebrity Gossip, Sex, Entertainment, Good Times
- Next you hear the rain drum on the broad-leaved hellebore, and beat down the mimulus beside the brook. The Land of Little Rain