Get to know Browbeat better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like bully or coax.
Browbeat meaning
To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
Synonyms of Browbeat
Using Browbeat
- The main meaning on this page is: To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
- Useful related words include: bully, coax, blarney, palaver.
- In the example corpus, browbeat often appears in combinations such as: to browbeat.
Context around Browbeat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Browbeat
- In this selection, "browbeat" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, got, recall, probably, last, biden and anyone stand out and add context to how "browbeat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include happy to browbeat you into and inexperience to browbeat him. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "browbeat" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with browbeat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wheaton College students are worried about their right to browbeat anyone enjoying the Bean. (14 words)
Trump is expected to try to browbeat members into backing swingeing new US sanctions on Tehran. (16 words)
As its latest foray into green energy mandates shows, it’s more than happy to browbeat you into conformity. (19 words)
Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden repeatedly devolved into a cacophony—mostly due to Trump’s apparent strategy to interrupt and browbeat Biden as much as possible. (32 words)
Rose, pp. 120, 141 Like his father, George reluctantly agreed to the dissolution and creation of peers, although he felt his ministers had taken advantage of his inexperience to browbeat him. (31 words)
The APC government will probably browbeat all Nigerians into submission, even as it has embarked on a mission to 'dumb down' the populace under some strange brand of fascism. (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
As its latest foray into green energy mandates shows, it’s more than happy to browbeat you into conformity.
I think we got browbeat last year into throwing out a number as to where we finished the end of the year.
Biden and Kamala Harris — who, recall, browbeat one Trump judicial nominee for mere membership in the innocuous Knights of Columbus — will pick up where Feinstein left off.
The APC government will probably browbeat all Nigerians into submission, even as it has embarked on a mission to 'dumb down' the populace under some strange brand of fascism.
Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden repeatedly devolved into a cacophony—mostly due to Trump’s apparent strategy to interrupt and browbeat Biden as much as possible.
Wheaton College students are worried about their right to browbeat anyone enjoying the Bean.
Trump is expected to try to browbeat members into backing swingeing new US sanctions on Tehran.
Rose, pp. 120, 141 Like his father, George reluctantly agreed to the dissolution and creation of peers, although he felt his ministers had taken advantage of his inexperience to browbeat him.
Common combinations with browbeat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to browbeat 4×