browbeat

Jeers to airlines who browbeat passengers into checking their carry-on bags at the gate, with agents threatening a possible delayed departure if enough travelers don’t give up their bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Dodgers management didn’t browbeat Treinen and Call, and that’s fine — ballplayers should be entitled to share their personal thoughts, however noxious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

But when things started to get "really crazy", she browbeat her parents into coming with her.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

But blunt rhetoric is often used only to browbeat others and distort facts.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023

I took Master Hemme’s hair from the student and recognized him as Basil, the boy Hemme had browbeat yesterday.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The actor was shown to no less domineering effect in The Great Santini, playing a frustrated Marine pilot who hectors and browbeats his teenage children.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Underwritten and a smidge too long, “Caught” is marred by an over-excited musical score that browbeats where it should tease.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

Brown browbeats them into playing what he’s got in mind, explaining that they should treat all of their instruments as drums, and suddenly the song comes together.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2014

In one video clip, Arnold Palmer browbeats a fellow golfer into hustling to the tee box by sarcastically saying, “While we’re young!”

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2013

Yes; it is no matter to Chattaway how he browbeats me and exposes my affairs.

From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood

But the truth is they had to be browbeaten into leading that revolution.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

In an age when batters are browbeaten with launch angles aimed to produce longballs, the Guardians are an anomaly.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

"I don't expect you will be browbeaten by No 10 to do radical or strange new policies," he told them, but he added there was "no excuse to take your foot off the pedal".

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2022

Among the adversaries that Musk has browbeaten, count the board of Twitter.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022

Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Several European officials said the leaders’ meeting went better than expected—a sign of both relief and diminished expectations after 18 months of browbeating from Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

He’d rather sleep late than wake up before dawn for a grueling day of fixing cars under his brother’s browbeating supervision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024

She often used a combination of charm and intense browbeating to convince the most reluctant members of the community to speak out in print or on TV.

From BBC ● May 18, 2024

One of the uglier early nomination hearings, Wittes reminds us, was the browbeating meted out to Thurgood Marshall in 1967 by such Southern segregationists as Strom Thurmond and Sam J. Ervin Jr.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee