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flogging
noun as in lashing
Strongest match
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Despite promises not to return to the repressive measures seen during their first rule in the 1990s, public floggings and executions were re-imposed by the Taliban authorities.
Remarkably, he took only eight runs from his first eight balls before flogging Singh Dale over the leg side for his first three boundaries.
The United Nations has said the rules amount to "gender apartheid", while also reporting public floggings and brutal attacks on former government officials.
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.
He began by timing the ball to all corners of Lahore before flogging England's bowlers whenever they dropped too short.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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