Scattered American soldiers were moving about the neighborhood like hunters, beating up Germans who had taken cover among bushes and in holes.
My heart was beating like a girl's at her first ball.
They've collared most of the ringleaders; but by the sound of it they're beating the shrubberies for the stray birds .
We descended into the sound of the beating surf before we found one: and there an impish fancy took me.
He began to sing, beating time with his rattle, and striking himself violent blows.
For the next two minutes the dancers walk around in a circle to the slow beating of the drums.
They come down on their heels again and again with the greatest force, keeping time to the beating of the drums.
The men had left camp so hurriedly in the morning that the usual beating of the ground was omitted, and so I had this unwelcome visitor.
He would throw himself down anywhere and fall asleep instantly, even with the sun beating on his head.
I can see now how we women looked, taking our evening stroll: a little procession of fluttering females, with scarfs and over-dresses drawn over our heads, whisking handkerchiefs and beating the air with fans.
With their handkerchiefs tied to sticks in lieu of flags, and beating old tin pans for drums, they strode lustily back and forth in imitation of the advancing soldiers.
One of the children, who had been beating the wall and crying to enter, had finally made preliminary preparations.
After our gasping and wild heart-beating had subsided a little, we realized that, in addition to our anxiety for those who had just left us, we were in peril ourselves.
The little bird produces the sound, from which he derives his name, by beating the air with his wings.
So, carefully noting its bearing and distance, and cautioning the lookout not to lose sight of it for an instant, I descended to the deck and straightway gave the necessary orders for making sail and beating up to it.
To Rachel's surprise her heart actually paid Hugh the compliment of beating a shade faster than its wont.
I can't get out," said the starling, the feathers on its breast worn away with beatingagainst the bars.
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride: And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
The inside preparations I could not witness, but day after day as I passed near I heard the bird hammering away, evidently beating down obstructions and shaping and enlarging the cavity.
She did not want to cry outwardly, but within her heart seemed weeping bitter tears, and itsbeating was like the dull thud of pounding on lead.
Last night of all, When yond same Starre that's Westward from the Pole Had made his course t'illume that part of Heauen Where now it burnes, Marcellus and my selfe, The Bell then beating one.
Then it is only the beating of its own great heart that it hears: to that goes the marching of its armies, with victory as the one goal.
Then, with a sudden burst of wrath, he breaks upon them, overturning their tables, scattering their gold upon the floor, and beating them with thongs.
My heart was beating so violently that I could not hold myself upon my legs.
After beating Tom of Hopton, there was not much more to be done in the way of reputation; I have long sat in my bar the wonder and glory of this here neighbourhood.
Music has the musical instruments, and below her is sitting Tubal-Cain, who is beating with two hammers on an anvil and is standing with his ears intent on that sound.
There's no beating a little prudence into your heads, try how one may.
Now my little heart goes a-beating like a drum, With the breath of the Bogie in my hair; And all round the candle the crooked shadows come And go marching along up the stair.
It is too much for southern gentlemen to stand—flaunting their flag and beating their drum right under our noses!
The temporary lull in the storm had long since passed, and now, beating down upon the world with redoubled fury, it met them squarely in the face.
The reason is not hard to find: he had a real heart of flesh and blood beating in his bosom; you could almost hear it throb.
All their songs were accompanied by the beating of tom-toms, the blowing of whistles and performing on various other musical instruments.
Moreover, when should we get there, beating against this south-easterly wind?
And then the wind catching her, she gradually came under the control of Captain John; and away we went for the north, beating right in the teeth of the gusts that came tearing over from the mouth of Loch Sunart.
Moreover, the night got as black as pitch, the moon had not arisen, and it was lucky, in this laborious beating up against the northerly squalls, that we had the distant Rona light by which to judge of our whereabouts.
Falling back to the big chair, she sat upon one arm of it, stared in horror at Cis for a moment, then began to cry and rock, beating her hands.
The cry smote his heart, bringing the tears that had not come when Barber was beating him.
Grandpa, impatiently beating on the table with his spoon like a baby.
He carried the lamp there and set it down, his heart beating hard under the pleats of his shirt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
