browbeaten
Example Sentences
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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
He had been browbeaten and humiliated successively that morning by Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and Corporal Whitcomb.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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