browbeat

Jeers to airlines who browbeat passengers into checking their carry-on bags at the gate, with agents threatening a possible delayed departure if enough travelers don’t give up their bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Dodgers management didn’t browbeat Treinen and Call, and that’s fine — ballplayers should be entitled to share their personal thoughts, however noxious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

But when things started to get "really crazy", she browbeat her parents into coming with her.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

But blunt rhetoric is often used only to browbeat others and distort facts.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023

“I hope you don’t think we’re gonna browbeat our students to please you’all,” she said.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

The actor was shown to no less domineering effect in The Great Santini, playing a frustrated Marine pilot who hectors and browbeats his teenage children.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Brown browbeats them into playing what he’s got in mind, explaining that they should treat all of their instruments as drums, and suddenly the song comes together.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2014

She browbeats her guest into giving her an estimate of the painting’s value — that is, if it is authentic.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011

In a stream of phone calls, he browbeats immigration officials, jawbones local reporters about the case and communes via video with Mr. Nabeel.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2011

"Is it by your orders, Sir George, that Mr. Madan insults and browbeats me when he meets me on a perfectly harmless errand to one of the men in your engine-house?"

From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward

And when enough people feel shamed into silence and emotionally browbeaten into shutting down, things boil over.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

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

From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

In an age when batters are browbeaten with launch angles aimed to produce longballs, the Guardians are an anomaly.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Several European officials said the leaders’ meeting went better than expected—a sign of both relief and diminished expectations after 18 months of browbeating from Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

For him, in fact, the swagger and browbeating are often an integral part of the negotiating process.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

Representatives for the writers described it as a “lecture” and a browbeating session in which they were pressured to accept an Aug. 11 proposal from the AMPTP.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

His browbeating got so bad that Judge Lewis Kaplan was forced to repeatedly interrupt and reprimand Tacopino.

From Salon ● May 1, 2023

Now he was stuck in the middle of an increasingly acrimonious debate between the browbeating Lawrence and the bedridden Compton.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik