They took a shellacking in yesterday's game.
suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition
Recent Examples on the WebWhen Jamal Murray banked in a 26-footer to end the first quarter, the Heat looked headed toward a shellacking.—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024 Yet this shellacking of the mainstream parties is only a preview of what regional elections in the fall of 2024 will bring in three of Germany’s eastern states: Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg.—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023 The Hawkeyes returned in February 2023, and the Terps again ran them out of the gym with a 96-68 shellacking, holding Clark to 5-for-13 shooting.—King Jemison, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024 At that point, the task was particularly unenviable: American Samoa was winless over its 17-year history, slotted last in FIFA’s 204-team rankings and the victim of the worst loss in international soccer history (a 31-0 shellacking against Australia a decade earlier).—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023 The shellacking against Cathedral Catholic was the most lopsided defeat in the storied program’s 75-year history.—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023 Colorado is 3-1 with its only loss a 42-6 shellacking against Oregon.—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023 Bass isn’t having it, and Judgment at Tokyo adds to the shellacking that the Hirohito myth has already received from Herbert Bix’s Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan and John Dower’s Embracing Defeat.—Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023 After a shellacking in 2022 that saw GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio defeat their challengers by 19 and 16 points, respectively, Democrats are hoping to get off the mat next year.—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
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