flog

Example Sentences

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“If you’re right here at the top of the curve, functioning at a high level, if I flog your nicotinic receptors, you’re actually going to have a decline in performance,” he adds.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2025

Would it have been better to continue to flog the sun-sapped Australians for the remainder of the day and possibly even into the second morning?

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023

They are a Thing Unto Themselves, these ads, an art almost irrelevant to the products they flog — sometimes barely mentioned, often easy to forget.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

The idea is not to flog yourself for mistakes but to acknowledge them with future improvements in mind.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

“Half the time you don’t even bother locking it. You’re probably hoping someone’ll flog it so you can collect the insurance.”

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak