Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Mr. Juárez claimed in the interview that the detectives who interrogated him had browbeaten him into a confession.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016

Industrialists whom the NRAdministrator had browbeaten into accepting collective bargaining were anything but sympathetic.

From Time Magazine Archive

They made a smooth-working team: after John L. had browbeaten the opposition with threats and oratory, Phil Murray came along with facts and finesse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though it was not in his contract, he had browbeaten Columbia Pictures into doing a couple of scenes his way in the just-completed Major Dundee.

From Time Magazine Archive

She gave up quite quietly, for she thought that, whatever happened, I would be rich, because she had browbeaten lazy, unbusinesslike Paolo into making a will in my favour.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)