He despised himself for it; but all the while, in a shifting, browbeaten way, he was seeking for an excuse to capitulate.
And though the poor browbeaten Chihuahuanos understood not a word of English they felt somehow that they had been overzealous and shuffled back to their blankets, like watchdogs that had been rebuked.
Then the great silence settled down upon Hidden Water and he sat alone in the shadow of the ramada, gazing away at the barren hills.
Well, what I want to know is this: Does Einstein sell you grub that much cheaper?
I did not come from Avenel to be browbeaten in Holyrood.
And shall I now be browbeatenby a chitty-faced girl?
Might not his integrity be browbeaten and defeated, as mine had been?
Indeed he had browbeaten Clarence, and convinced him at the moment that his suspicions and perplexities were only due to the ignorance of a foolish, scrupulous youth, who did not understand the customs and perquisites of an agency.
If the burly sergeant had jostled the guards unceremoniously to either side, had stamped on their feet, had threatened andbrowbeaten them, the new-comer was tenfold more violent and domineering.
There was the dawn of a smile actually on the face of the rotund guard who had been so odiously browbeaten by the Sergeant.
The prisoner was checked and browbeaten as often as he put a question or made an observation.
King is said to have "browbeaten the Abjuration Bill.
Then she pulled herself together with determination to be neitherbrowbeaten nor overborne.
Thursby meditated an explosion, but refrained at discretion: Joan had taught him that, unlike her browbeaten mother and timid sister and her sleek, loaferish brother, she could give as good as he could send.
And if it is the one business of the specialist to obtain results, and we are all browbeaten into being specialists, but one result is going to be possible.
Is he not browbeateninto taking things for granted whichever way he turns?
Louvois and his minions must learn that I am not to be intimidated by their menaces, nor to be browbeaten by their contumely.
He had learned that the students would not be browbeaten or bullied.
A further examination showed that Poodles had browbeaten and threatened him; and we were disposed to palliate Pearl's offence, in consideration of his poverty and his dependent position, after he had confessed his error.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "browbeaten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
