flogging

Example Sentences

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“We are highly misunderstood because of stories of people wearing crowns of thorns and flogging themselves,” Martinez said.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, the regime has also reinstituted public executions and floggings, which were an ugly hallmark of its previous stint in power.

From Washington Post

A runaround that will be reversed as we in the press keep flogging away at chastened politicos.

From Seattle Times

After enduring the dangerous voyage he recounted in “Two Years Before the Mast,” during which he witnessed a cruel flogging on shipboard, he returned to Boston to become an early human rights lawyer and abolitionist.

From New York Times

The list of his offenses is a mile long and goes back many years, but 2022 has been especially heinous with his relentless flogging of the white supremacist "great replacement" theory.

From Salon