browbeaten

Example Sentences

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But the truth is they had to be browbeaten into leading that revolution.

From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2023

As the tragedies accumulated midshow, I started to feel a little browbeaten by the cast.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

"I don't expect you will be browbeaten by No 10 to do radical or strange new policies," he told them, but he added there was "no excuse to take your foot off the pedal".

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2022

In his statement Tuesday, he also suggested that they were racially motivated — James and the newly elected Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, are Black — and that his accountants had been browbeaten into quitting.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

He had been browbeaten and humiliated successively that morning by Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and Corporal Whitcomb.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller