browbeat

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

Musk used a lot of jargon to explain what he browbeat his staff into doing, but it's not hard to read between the lines.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2023

They will believe you can browbeat an extremely well-lawyered public company into getting out of a deal that has no apparent legal out.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2022

“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