flagellation

Example Sentences

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Perhaps that sounds more like flagellation than it does fandom, but I’ve heard this point brought up by multiple people over the past few days.

From Seattle Times

With their compelling blend of brain and brawn, flair and flagellation, they battered the mighty All Blacks in the autumn and put Ireland to the sword in Paris a fortnight ago.

From BBC

The flagellation has come not just from gleeful Republicans, but from many in the Democratic ranks.

From New York Times

Other, larger groups from other areas had sought to join the flagellation ritual at the Tondo church but were stopped at police checkpoints and made to turn back.

From Reuters

If you speed up the “A” section and slow down the “B” section — which usually sounds like a cavalry charge — then you can hear the flagellation, you hear Christ being tortured.

From New York Times