: something used for binding, wrapping, or fastening
Examples of lashing in a Sentence
They gave the sailor a lashing.
She put lashings of butter on her muffin.
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Attendees will explore a variety of types of vertical support structures and learn to tie different rope knots and lashings useful for creating plant support structures for our own garden.
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Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026
Nevertheless, as befits a film partly backed by Wim Wenders’ Road Movies, this deploys an eclectic soundtrack and lashings of backlighting and magic hour cinematography to help capture the uncanny feeling of being a European stranger in a strange land of enchantment out west.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
Poor Andy Sachs — in the form of the Disney princess-eyed Anne Hathaway — may have suffered the verbal lashings of a boss who expected whims to move worlds on her behalf.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
Despite the critical lashing, the audience score has been propped up by faithful fans and is sitting at 96%.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
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Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026
Nevertheless, as befits a film partly backed by Wim Wenders’ Road Movies, this deploys an eclectic soundtrack and lashings of backlighting and magic hour cinematography to help capture the uncanny feeling of being a European stranger in a strange land of enchantment out west.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
Poor Andy Sachs — in the form of the Disney princess-eyed Anne Hathaway — may have suffered the verbal lashings of a boss who expected whims to move worlds on her behalf.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
Despite the critical lashing, the audience score has been propped up by faithful fans and is sitting at 96%.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Lashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lashing. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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lashing
noun
lash·ing
ˈlash-iŋ 
: something used for tying, wrapping, or fastening
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