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Example sentences for "beat them"

  • Well, I have no doubt we shall be able to beat them off.

  • Of course, we should be able to beat them off; but I should be sorry to have to kill a lot of the poor little beggars.

  • Too few to defeat them, Abdool, but not too few to beat them up.

  • Peel, core, and boil the apples with only sufficient water to prevent them from burning; beat them to a pulp, and to every lb.

  • When they are tender, take out the peel, beat them into a pulp, let them cool, and stir them to the whites of the eggs, which should be previously beaten to a strong froth.

  • Beat them up, adding sugar to taste, and a small piece of butter.

  • Take a quart of cream and fourteen eggs, leaving out half the whites; beat them but a little, and when the cream boils up put in the eggs; keep them stirring on a gentle fire till the whole is a thick curd.

  • Take a slice of beef, about half an inch thick and four or five wide; cut it in two equal parts; beat them well to make them flat, and pare the edges neatly.

  • No, if we beat them by a good score I'll be satisfied, even if they cross our line.

  • If you sent Blue Hill another challenge so soon, they'd only laugh at you, and very likely they would say you arranged the whole coaching plan merely to beat them.

  • Beat them with a rolling-pin, to make them very tender, and season them with a little salt and pepper and some powdered nutmeg.

  • Beat them a little with a rolling pin, and season them with pepper and salt.

  • After the mashed potatos are mixed with butter in a deep earthen pan, beat them with a wooden spoon to render them very light.

  • Mix them with fresh butter, and then stir them well, or beat them with a large wooden spoon to render them light.

  • There shall be no massacre, but if necessary we will fight them for the prahus, and do our best to beat them handsomely.

  • Shall we make a stand here and endeavour to beat them back, or shall we march on at once, leaving them to follow if they care?

  • Morgan and Williams ought to beat them, I think.

  • In the course of time he came to beat them in running on the road; then they said that they would make him run in the fields and, if he beat them there, they meant to eat him.

  • Soon a second leg said that it would go outside; so it went and that leg met a leopard and a bear and it beat them to death and returned.

  • The Ghormuhas could run very fast and they made Somai run a race with them every day and their plan was that they would eat him when he was strong enough to beat them in the race.

  • Now all this while the captains that were in the Recorder's house were playing with the battering-rams at the gates of the castle, to beat them down.

  • The thoughts brought tears of helpless rage to Dave's eyes, and it was hard to beat them back.

  • As the Colonel said: Thanks to you two lads, we beat them to it, and gave them a very bad trimming into the bargain, too.

  • We beat them to it and blasted the tar out of their invasion bases.

  • His clothes were frozen stiff, and he had to beat them on the ice to soften them; but the struggle to don them sent the rich blood rushing through his body, and he was warmed to a glow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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