bastinado

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.

From Time Magazine Archive

This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian �this James A. Reed of Missouri�what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out!

From Time Magazine Archive

They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.

From Time Magazine Archive

I need not say that the reality of Mr. Barker was a very terrible awakening, which contained no lineament of my purple dream, save the bastinado.

From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various

The tailor, who was deaf of one ear, understood that he was to have the bastinado, and fell a-weeping.

From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Valentine, L. (Laura)