BEATEN in a Sentence

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Everything about her was warm and soft and scented: even the stains of her grief became her as rain-drops do the beaten rose.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEATEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
beaten
 a.  formed or made thin by hammering; totally worn-out; exhausted
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  They built their fine homes on Whitehall and Washington streets and along the high ridge of land on which countless generations of moccasined Indian feet had beaten a path called the Peachtree Trail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  And with every day that passed, she became more sure in her own mind of his devotion, more certain he would arrange matters satisfactorily when the Yankees were finally beaten.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  The attack came, there was fierce skirmishing and the Yankees were beaten back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  They knew they were retreating but they knew they had not been beaten.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  We'll have the Yankees beaten back in no time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  And she knew Prissy could be beaten to death before she would venture forth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  They had cut the railroad four miles below the town, but they had been beaten off by the Confederate cavalry; and the engineering corps, sweating in the broiling sun, had repaired the line.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Finally a courier came up from Jonesboro with the reassuring news that the Yankees had been beaten back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  Now that Rene was home, he drove an old wagon to the Yankee camp every day and sold cakes and pies and beaten biscuits to the soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Not beaten yet, she thought exultantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  When the fury of love had beaten in her heart, his mind had been closed to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
13  She was kicking a beaten and defenseless man--and she had promised Melanie that she would look after him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
14  Reason, judgment, renunciation, all the sane daylight forces, were beaten back in the sharp struggle for self-preservation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
15  Everything about her was warm and soft and scented: even the stains of her grief became her as rain-drops do the beaten rose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  A correspondent for Reuters news agency says he saw a number of demonstrators being beaten.
2  She was beaten with a metal bar.
3  The coach called all the players together to discuss the reasons of being beaten.
4  They rusticated in villages off the beaten track for nearly fifteen years.
5  Our house is a bit off the beaten track.
6  The newspaper's forecast that the Democrats would be totally beaten in the general election came true.
7  Our army was beaten by sheer weight of numbers.
8  She was beaten in the semi-finals by wild card Louise Smith.
9  One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten.
10  The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.
11  The local people had beaten out a path through the forest.
12  She was often beaten by her drunken husband.
13  It's unkind to exult over a person one has beaten in a race.
14  He was beaten so badly that his brother didn't recognize him.
15  Finally we saw a village located well off the beaten path.