Examples of lashing in a Sentence

They gave the sailor a lashing. She put lashings of butter on her muffin.

Recent Examples on the Web Customers sweating over a lack of lashing points can breathe a sigh of relief. — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2022 The promised learning experience was delivered in the form of hands-on hard labor and the occasional tongue-lashing. — New York Times, 6 July 2022 The tongue-lashing Newsom delivered last week was different. — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022 Rolling eyes at an adult meant, at a minimum, a tongue lashing. — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2022 An inflatable Santa Claus that had survived the lashing winds swayed forlornly in the air, its affable face a striking contrast to the destruction. — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021 If anything, McCauliffe’s lashing of Trump’s endorsement probably backfired by reassuring Trump’s base that Youngkin was OK without scaring other voters away. — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2021 Owning a video player device could also have led to a public lashing. — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 22 Nov. 2021 But Kyle has thoroughly sucked for the past four weeks and is overdue for a public lashing. — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021 See More

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