drubbed
Example Sentences
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It would’ve been easy for Jets fans to panic a few weeks ago when the Jets were drubbed by the Cincinnati Bengals 27-12 in Week 3 to drop them to 1-2.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022
By contrast, festival patrons largely shunned Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” after it was drubbed days earlier in Venice.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2022
The two have met twice this century, both in Fiesta Bowls, both occasions for Notre Dame to wind up drubbed.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022
Indian shares ended lower on Friday to post their biggest weekly decline in more than two years, drubbed by worries that rapid increases in interest rates to tame stubborn inflation could derail economic growth.
From Reuters • Jun. 20, 2022
“I would be sorry to have this little man drubbed or hanged,” said she, with a sigh; “surely he is not of the stuff rebels are made of.”
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Robinson, Rowland E.
