drubbed

Example Sentences

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Six weeks ago, Gentry could only hop into the USC huddle on one leg, helpless as its defense was drubbed by Utah.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2022

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

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

G.-K.—"Me and my friends and my cousins and my aunts; certainly we stopped them—and we drubbed them too, and took them to the police station!"

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)