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Meanings of flogging in English
Portuguese
flagelação Spanish
flagelación Synonyms
Examples for "whipping"
Examples for "whipping"
1
Policy debate in Ireland involves whipping up emotions rather than cogent debate.
2
The stocks and the whipping-post stood by the side of the meeting-house.
3
House leaders are still whipping votes as Friday's deadline for passage approaches.
4
He had no problem whipping anyone or anything when it was deserved.
5
His new penal code also punishes Muslims caught drinking alcohol with whipping.
1
The Franschhoek-based will also enjoy a good lashing late on Tuesday night.
2
The clew of the mainsail was lashing about wildly in the gale.
3
The devil astride the jib boom, his tail lashing in the wind.
4
That we're going to lose control and start lashing out at people?
5
Then the rain broke-brokein lashing whip-cordswith the crackle of fire.
1
November 2014: Launches a new tanning and skincare range called The Base.
2
He is concerned about the intensive use of sunbeds by tanning addicts.
3
He worked on his tanning and his canoe-making late in the afternoon.
4
The tanning he had done himself, slowly and laboriously, in frontier fashion.
5
Food and clothing were to be had for the killing and tanning.
1
It makes for a fantastic spectacle and a fascinating exercise in self-flagellation.
2
Then again, there's no need to make a massive show of self-flagellation.
3
As ever, Euro offered an opportunity for the ritual self-flagellation of the English.
4
It wasn't quite the display of self-flagellation that some reformers would have liked.
5
He went back into his room and beat on his head in self-flagellation.
Usage of flogging in English
1
Enjoy your flogging the other day, Nish-Nash?' Muss clawed his way up.
2
As I say, it's all a long way from flogging fax machines.
3
Galbraith said, 'A flogging helps no one at a time like this.'
4
Seven years ago Sara Blakely was flogging fax machines door to door.
5
The second time, Jamie had been the only prisoner up for flogging.
6
Death was in the school-room, and Lugare had been flogging A CORPSE.
7
In the morning, even under the severest flogging, it will not rise.
8
Discipline was severe, and flogging was the penalty for breaking the regulations.
9
The fellow ought to have been given a public flogging for it.
10
Meanwhile on the shore, some lucky local is flogging my designer shorts.
11
When a flogging offence was committed a boy was put down thus:
12
Then: A native can always be made to talk by flogging him.
13
The culprits could expect nothing but a flogging at the captain's pleasure.
14
His pursuers, expecting a flogging should he escape, dashed in after him.
15
Tying somebody up and flogging her-that'dbe too much remove for him.
16
He recalls, for instance, the occasion of his only flogging at school.
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Flogging through the time
Flogging across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common