beat back

phrasal verb

beat back; beaten back or beat back; beating back; beats back

: to force (someone) to go back or to retreat by fighting

Our troops were beaten back by enemy forces.

Police used batons to beat the protesters back.

Examples of beat back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Swoboda, an election lawyer endorsed by President Donald Trump, beat back an attempt to replace her by former state Rep. Cory McGarr by a vote of 978 to 758. —Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2025

Europe has beaten back the infection, save for the British Isles, which have been quarantined, cut off from the modern world and its progress. —Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025

Voucher supporters beat back a late night attempt to remove the federal school voucher tax shelter language from Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, but the Senate ultimately approved language with some significant differences from the House version. —Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

But those threats were beaten back in the last few years of war, and twice last year, Israel got practice rounds bombing Iran following Iranian missile fire. —Daniel Estrin, NPR, 25 June 2025

Rhymes for beat back

• aback
• anzac
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback