How to Use beating in a Sentence

beating

noun

• There is no beating around the bush.
  — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 25 May 2026
• And then there were the beatings.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
• That’ll get the heart beating, trust me.
  — Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
• If the rocks fell, the beatings grew worse.
  — Mark Banchereau, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• If the rocks fell, the beatings grew worse.
  — Mark Banchereau The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
• The beatings took place as often as two or three times a week.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• Don’t sit back and take an uncalled-for beating.
  — Jim Heininger, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• For her, Nichols' beating and death brought tears all over again.
  — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2023
• The bruises of beatings still show on the soles of his feet and back.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
• The frantic beating against the locked door in my mind grew louder.
  — Lane Scott Jones, Longreads, 25 June 2024
• The series put a beating on Smith that night and the rest of the way.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
• But the beating seemed to have broken something in him.
  — Joyce Johnson, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
• Her recovery from the beating had been slow and painful.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Even if a machine could restore the beating of their heart.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
• Tyson suffered a brain bleed and damage to his frontal lobe from the beating.
  — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2021
• Yet this was far from the first time stocks have taken a beating in recent years.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• The answer doomed him to further beatings—but that was not the point.
  — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
• The torture and the beatings and the -- the attempts to kill him and all of that.
  — Troy Roberts, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
• Then, Anakin comes through with a fly verse of his own, as heavy on jokes as chest-beating.
  — Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025
• You are brought to your senses, this time by squawking and the rapid beating of wings.
  — Addie Citchens, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
• From dirty pets to messy kids to kitchen mishaps, hardwood floors can take a daily beating.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
• And luckily, a lot of the stunts are in the car, so the car has to take the beating.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
• The killing involved a lengthy beating and torture.
  — Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
• And in a few moments the room is filled with the faint whooshing sound of a small heart beating.
  — Katia Riddle, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
• The beauty of fishing from a kayak is the plastic boat can take a beating.
  — Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
• He was charged as a juvenile in both the house party and park beatings.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024
• We are threatened with beatings and gunfire.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
• The victim sustained a deep cut to his head during the beating.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2025
• Once the beating stops, Bowman can be seen with a bloodied head.
  — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2021
• When beating, whip with vigor using a fork instead of a whisk.
  — Megan Zhang, Saveur, 4 Sep. 2025