Example Sentences

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The inquiry was told that Mr Hahn had opposed corporal punishment and the school did not feature other practices common to boarding schools such as "fagging."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2021

It was she who fanned to new endeavor the fagging spirits of her husband, in those moments of discouragement which are apt to come to all engaged in intense scientific research.

From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2011

During his ten years as headmaster McCrum nudged ten of Eton's 25 independent houses into giving up fagging voluntarily.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thoughtful English parents last fortnight had their attention directed to an incident of much more gravity, a far sterner condemnation of fagging.

From Time Magazine Archive

No, it is always Mrs. Albert Whittaker toiling and fagging and slaving for other people’s glorification.

From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by Winter, John Strange