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.

Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or over-reached her astuteness.

From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte

Those men have browbeaten the company long enough.

From In the Shadow of the Hills by Shedd, George C. (George Clifford)

We’ll talk price until I have browbeaten you as low as you will go.

From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by Flagg, James Montgomery

Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or overreached her astuteness.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright