lash
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The crews use mooring ropes to lash the ships as close as 11 feet from each other so that they roll in the waves together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The crews use mooring ropes to lash the ships as close as 11 feet from each other so that they roll in the waves together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Will top-flight clubs spend the summer transfer window trying to master the set-piece meta by buying new free-kick takers and a gaggle of giants for them to lash the ball at?
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
When powerful industries "lash out like this", Ahmed said, "it is the sound of a system under pressure."
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Then I'll lash them to the hull with homemade rope.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
The paranoid chart-topper lashes out at his close associates and rivals alike.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
Even so, Patel stands out for how he appears to crave online adulation and lashes out at any perceived criticism.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
The solid, stolid, self-satisfied Edwardian England that had seemed so deserving of his lashes was itself now wounded, and something in Galsworthy shifted accordingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
And winning best breakthrough artist, Lola Young noted: "I'm not wearing eye lashes so I don't know how I feel about that right now but we'll make it work."
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
She’d land a few light licks on our legs, though, and since we didn’t want to hurt her feelings we’d scream and holler as if we were receiving the twenty-one lashes from a Spanish inquisitor.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Vocabulary lists containing lash
"Ain't I a Woman?"
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Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 5
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Vocabulary from Readings 5, Unit 5
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