Strong and wrong beats weak and right - that's the bugbear the Democrats have to contend with.

His pulse was the steady, but weak beat of a combatant who had been thoroughly beaten.

One is using a stethoscope to detect a heartbeat, though a very weak beat may not be heard.

They are phrases with flavor, short reports alternating emphatic strong and weak beats.

Dissonances are to be confined to passing notes and weak beats.

Clapping on "and" means you're accenting the weak beat, also known as the offbeat.

On my fourth try I felt a beat, low and weak and uncertain.

So I had to go through a year of weak beats, of corny beats.

Usually in short bursts of sound; the glitch is almost always syncopated, placed on weaker beats to grab attention.

The most important distinction is whether they occur on a strong or weak beat and are thus accented or unaccented.