How to Use lashing in a Sentence

lashing

noun

• They gave the sailor a lashing.
• She put lashings of butter on her muffin.
• The lashing out has been painful.
  — Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
• At the end of the lashing, the two men were helped off the platform.
  — NBC News, 23 May 2017
• Rolling eyes at an adult meant, at a minimum, a tongue lashing.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2022
• Trump’s public lashing out against mail-in voting may come too late.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 26 June 2020
• The cities and towns there were some of the first areas to receive a lashing from the storm.
  — Dan Glaun, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
• They were forced to cover their bodies head to toe or risk public lashings.
  — Ghazi Balkiz and Angela Dewan, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• Customers sweating over a lack of lashing points can breathe a sigh of relief.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2022
• And lashings of the all-important gravy.
  — Susanne Fowler, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
• The lashings of springtime Atlantic storms can do no harm.
  — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
• Flowers and plants will be displayed on racks hand made by lashings done by the Scouts.
  — Courant Community, 8 May 2018
• Fay doesn’t hold back, giving the captain a tongue-lashing in front of the other cops.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• Finish the lashing by tying the tag end of the line to the tag end of your original knot.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2019
• The pan sauce on this dish was the essence of roasted chicken, with a lashing of lemon zing ($29).
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
• He was jailed and received 50 lashings and counted himself lucky to still have his head.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• Bend a few inches of the end of the bungee over and use the lashing cord to secure it tightly to the running cord.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2020
• Lawrence paired more juicy red lips with lashings of mascara and punky eyeshadow combos to match a then-more edgy style.
  — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2025
• Tails between their legs, the team slinked from the meeting, smarting from Karthik's tongue lashing.
  — John Rex, Forbes, 15 Sep. 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
• At 10 yards the young bull skids to a stop, trunk lashing and swinging, ears now flared forward in confused bluff.
  — Bob Brister, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
• Plenty of black liner and lashings of eye-opening mascara finished the look.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2023
• When a sailor threatened to report him as a smuggler, Arnold led a gang that inflicted a lashing in reprisal.
  — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• After seven hours of nonstop lashing wind and rain, Ham surveyed the damage.
  — Remy Tumin, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022
• Sometimes weak cages collapse under a rope's lashing and form a CME.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
• If plants look deflated or heavily wilted after a wind lashing, this is a sign of water loss.
  — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
• Hawley took the reins and delivered a cavalcade of tapas-style bites adapted from their main menu that came out in great lashings of food.
  — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026
• There were, indeed, in the Middle Ages, some very fine paintings covered in lashings of gold leaf.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
• Eyes were finished off with lashings of her FetishEyes Mascara for extra drama.
  — Lauren Murdoch-Smith, Vogue, 24 June 2024