WordNet
Usage examples of "beat back".
At Bapaume, yesterday, they saw the rage With which I beat back the Count of Bucquoi.
This time the sound of his name beat back from the high buildings surrounding the square like thunder echoing down a canyon.
But the cry beat back upon us in that enclosed space and seemed to carry no farther than the invisible walls of our prison.
Here in your mountain nest you can beat back every Teule in Anahuac, as in bygone years the false Tlascalans beat back the Aztecs.
They burst from the disc into the body of the crystal cube, then beat back, bathing the disc and the markings.
There was a sense of serenity generated by the music and the energy that beat back the bleakness and despair that was everywhere else on Kundala.
He knew it might be his last chance to beat back the white man, to cleanse the land of them and make it possible for the Comanche people to live as they had always lived, masters of the llano and all the prairies where they had always hunted.
Richard de Beaumont flung the great banner of Wales over the Prince, hiding him till more help came to beat back the foe.
So we tried to make a temporary arrangement with Hitler in order to get people working, recover our senses, beat back the Communists, restore our dignity.