browbeat

Example Sentences

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Instead, he’ll turn to his pool of henchmen and try to browbeat them through Senate confirmation.

From Slate • May 31, 2025

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

“Attorney General Garland is my constituent, and I don’t browbeat my constituents,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 12, 2022

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