They took a shellacking in yesterday's game.
suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition
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But the shellacking against PSG on Saturday marks the end of a cycle for the current Inter team, who at 29.1 years has the oldest squad in Serie A by average age.—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025 But those Boston comebacks and the 38-point shellacking to end the Celtics’ season weren’t only because of Brunson’s late-game valiance.—Fred Katz, New York Times, 21 May 2025 The latest: After the surprise shellacking, Cook County GOP chair Sean Morrison resigned.—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025 The ever-optimistic and strikingly transparent RH CEO Gary Friedman and his company took a shellacking this week.—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shellacking
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