What is "beating down"

Usage examples of "beating down".

Otherwise, nothing blocked the sun from beating down on the tourists with greater force every cubit they descended.

There were white arclights beating down on us and we felt kind of touchy and raw, and we were an ugly, dangerous mob in that moment.

The sky was a deep cerulean blue, the sun beating down, turning the wavetops to brilliant scimitars.

Oblivious of the rain beating down on my unprotected back, I stretched out in the concealment of long grass and some bushes and studied the place.

The crisp air was both chilly and warm, and the sun beating down on her was a delicious sensation.

Outside the storm had redoubled its efforts, rain beating down like tiny silver spears.

I stood there for a moment with the rain beating down on me, listening to the roar of the sea along the beach and thinking of the two men somewhere out there in the night, beating into the shelter of Tangier in a fifteen-ton ketch, fighting their way through the breaking seas towards the safety of the harbour.

He all but leaped to his feet before realizing it was thunder rather than someone beating down the door.