flog

I share this not to publicly flog myself for another travel faux pas but to give you hope or prompt you to broaden your search.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

You’re not out to fleece anyone with egregiously high commissions or merely befriend another member because you want to flog the latest financial product.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

“If you’re right here at the top of the curve, functioning at a high level, if I flog your nicotinic receptors, you’re actually going to have a decline in performance,” he adds.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2025

Would it have been better to continue to flog the sun-sapped Australians for the remainder of the day and possibly even into the second morning?

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023

“Half the time you don’t even bother locking it. You’re probably hoping someone’ll flog it so you can collect the insurance.”

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

And it has a sense of humor, opening with a sidewalk preacher who flogs her Bible app.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

Hawley's character are as outsized as ever, and the mythical Fahr-goh accent still flogs the ear – but the overwrought, flowery speeches that drowned the 2020 season aren’t as overwhelming.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2023

It also makes the best budget glitter in the business and flogs it for less than a fiver.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017

Avon flogs make-up and skin cream under its own brand.

From Economist ● Apr. 4, 2012

The Soudanese say to each other, "This hardy people never flogs its servants; it is superior to the simplest and most obvious human pleasures."

From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Mr. Mamdani’s team flogged a 2001 city memo that estimated the city could face 35,000 potential plaintiffs from “toxic tort cases that might arise in the next few decades.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Model Lauren Hutton valiantly flogged Pepsi Light—“One calorie!”—but it didn’t last on the market, steamrolled by aspartame, a new sweetener, and the Diet Coke juggernaut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Scores of bare-chested flagellants with covered faces walked barefoot through the dusty streets of Pampanga province's San Fernando as they flogged their backs with bamboo whips in scorching heat.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

Abhishek had only made one score over 15 in this tournament but flogged the ball to all parts.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

He never flogged me, thank goodness, but I was given a vivid description of one of these ceremonies by my best friend at Repton, whose name was Michael.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

By the end, the only thing putting a third T20 century in doubt was Sciver-Brunt's flogging of the bowling at the other end.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

The Milan-Cortina Games have hardly been an exception, although there have been no reports of public flogging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

But opportunities like last week’s flogging of the new Porsche 911 Turbo S on Circuito Ascari are rare and require considerable schlepping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

But it’s also part of Netflix’s “rise and fall” true crime genre, cautioning against believing in figures like Johnson, who hooks young men by flogging a version of caveman masculinity that associates virility with dominance.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025

“See,” he said, “they come quickly; they are flogging the horses, and galloping as hard as they can.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker