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

I am reminded of that whole Gulf of America business, which allowed the administration to browbeat domestic airlines into geographical revisions of their in-flight maps.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

“I hope you don’t think we’re gonna browbeat our students to please you’all,” she said.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

She browbeats her guest into giving her an estimate of the painting’s value — that is, if it is authentic.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011

Money bellows," retorted Scarborough, "and bribes and browbeats, bully and coward that it is.

From The Cost by David Graham Phillips

And when enough people feel shamed into silence and emotionally browbeaten into shutting down, things boil over.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

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

It was whispered in one browbeaten textile union that the mute was an organizer for the C.I.O.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Her enduring image is that of a pleasant church lady, not of a soldier, a table-pounding tyrant or a browbeating aristocrat.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022

This divide-and-conquer strategy is better than repeatedly allowing counterexamples to intrude into the main line of an argument while browbeating readers into looking away.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker