thrash

How to use thrash in a sentence

No additional feed-water was required during an ordinary day's work to thrash 1500 sheaves of wheat with 168 lbs.

Why, I offered to thrash him and his two boys only three weeks ago, for hanging around after dark where I had a trawl set.

And forthwith went out into the street and began to thrash all the Armenians they could find!

Not in the smallest,” said the devil; “it would be useless cruelty to thrash a thing like me.

If one had a net to spread round, and then send Pomp in there with a pole to beat and thrash about, one might get, a good haul.

MASS' GEORGEGEORGE MANVILLE FENN

I'll thrash you till you won't see out of your blasted eyes for a month!

He had thrashed the Coffee-colored Angel: he could thrash or take a thrashing from any one.

THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSON

The whole region near the canoe became a white-foaming thrash of struggle and of death.

CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND

Oh, Captain Wiseman, I do wish you would thrash the fellow to within an inch of his life.

He had threatened to thrash the fellow in the street, and the fellow had not dared to come out of his house without a policeman.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985