"beat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He beat his breast and put some question to them.
- Why don't you stop beating your breast and get started?
- I guess we just didn't beat our breasts about it.
- Those saying the prayer beat their breast at the italicized words.
- I am," he said, beating his breast, "but not of my own will.
- Things might have gone faster if I'd remembered that sooner, but there was no sense in beating my breast over it.
- I could place myself on the throne while still beating my breast over how I'd been wronged.
- That only made him beat his breast harder and shriek louder.
- Decades later, he was still beating his breast about the adolescent prank.
- People were beating their breasts, prostrating themselves on the hard stones.
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