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Examples of shellacking in a Sentence
They took a shellacking in yesterday's game.
suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition
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After a 30-6 shellacking at the hands of the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on Sunday, the Steelers were trying to come back east later in the day.
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Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
The Dodgers relief corps was reeling in mid-June, with back-to-back shellackings at the hands of the San Francisco Giants exacerbating the struggles of an already ailing bullpen.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
The previous high was 17, which occurred during a a 34-point shellacking at Pittsburgh on Feb. 7, 2023, the most lopsided loss of Payne's tenure.
—The Courier-Journal, 20 Jan. 2024
This isn’t the first time the coach busted out his moves — he was seen getting down after the team clinched the AFC’s No. 1 seed and first-round playoff bye on New Year’s Eve with a shellacking of the Miami Dolphins.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2024
When 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
Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
The Dodgers relief corps was reeling in mid-June, with back-to-back shellackings at the hands of the San Francisco Giants exacerbating the struggles of an already ailing bullpen.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
The previous high was 17, which occurred during a a 34-point shellacking at Pittsburgh on Feb. 7, 2023, the most lopsided loss of Payne's tenure.
—The Courier-Journal, 20 Jan. 2024
This isn’t the first time the coach busted out his moves — he was seen getting down after the team clinched the AFC’s No. 1 seed and first-round playoff bye on New Year’s Eve with a shellacking of the Miami Dolphins.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2024
When 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
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“Shellacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shellacking. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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