• I took the drumsticks back and started beating a rhythm out.
• The sound she beat out was at once primal and primitive, yet nuanced, complex, flowing.
• He is lightly beating out a rhythm which gradually increases in intensity.

• It carried on relentlessly burning, melting the sole of his shoes as he finally beat the flames out.
• It screamed as flames surrounded it; screaming, it tried to beat them out.
• Other men knocked them to the ground and began to beat the flames out savagely.

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