browbeat

How To Use browbeat In A Sentence

• Alan seemed so intense about it that she was feeling browbeaten, and she didn't want to give in just because of that. AFTERMATH
• As I was saying, if our mothers can't browbeat us into getting married, what hope has a faceless government bureaucracy?
• Vote your conscience even if other jurors browbeat you.
• The judge browbeat the witness.
• I talk to very tough people, I don't browbeat children or old women, I browbeat people who can take it.
• The privacy of the voting booth is a check on bribery and intimidation, for there is no way to be sure that bought or browbeaten votes will be cast as directed. Election Reform
• Hence, the commander had to beg, cajole, and browbeat authorities of three nations to get what he needed.
• British television screens are once more hosting the talking heads - patronising, confident and ultra-informed - that have so often browbeaten us into following them along the path to social catastrophe.
• Tony Woodley, joint leader of Unite, also mounted another attack on the company for trying to "browbeat" its staff into accepting worse pay and conditions. WN.com - Articles related to Dubai gives $9.5bn support to struggling investment company
• After all, what sort of conspiracy is it when the victim has to browbeat his supposed aggressors into taking part?