flogging

Example Sentences

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Voters seem content to let the young talent dangle, trusting that he’ll continue flogging himself to make more great pictures like this.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

But opportunities like last week’s flogging of the new Porsche 911 Turbo S on Circuito Ascari are rare and require considerable schlepping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

But it’s also part of Netflix’s “rise and fall” true crime genre, cautioning against believing in figures like Johnson, who hooks young men by flogging a version of caveman masculinity that associates virility with dominance.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

India looked on course for a thumping win when Rohit was flogging the New Zealand seamers, with the tournament's leading wicket-taker Matt Henry absent because of injury.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025

And if someone had told me at the time that this flogging clergyman was one day to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, I would never have believed it.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl