"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship" "We beat the competition" "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

"Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night" "The teacher used to beat the students"

"beat on the door" "beat the table with his shoe"

"Her heart was beating fast"

"beat swords into ploughshares"

: "Rain drummed against the windshield" "The drums beat all night"

"the piece has a fast rhythm" "the conductor set the beat"

"The boat beat in the strong wind"

"The bird flapped its wings" "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

"he could feel the beat of her heart"

"The sun was beating down on us"

"beat one's breast" "beat one's foot rhythmically"

"in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"

"beat the egg whites" beat the cream"

"the city pulsated with music and excitement"

: "beat the drum"

"beat a path through the forest"

"This kind of work exhausts me" "I'm beat" "He was all washed up after the exam"

"Beat the rhythm"

"This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!" "a vexing problem" "This question really stuck me"

"the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"

"The bird's wings were flapping"

"I beat the traffic" "She outfoxed her competitors"

"he heard the beat of a drum"

"The con-man beat me out of $50" "This salesman ripped us off!" "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme" "They chiseled me out of my money"

"was all in at the end of the day" "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere" "bushed after all that exercise" "I'm dead after that long trip"

: "Reading beats watching television" "This sure beats work!"

"the clocks were ticking" "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

"the cox raised the beat"

"beat the subway fare"