thrash

Blending thrash metal, alternative rock, punk, and Armenian musical influences, “Toxicity” expanded the sound System of a Down had established on its debut without sacrificing the band’s identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

A band of protestors in flip-flops thrash on aluminum pans, registering their anger with the blackouts, moving quickly to avoid the police.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

It's sequenced with another cross-generational saga, The Test, where Madonna and her eldest daughter, Lourdes Leon, thrash out their differences over a spacious, trancey instrumental.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Uncertainty will weigh on shipping while Washington and Tehran thrash out details on Iran’s nuclear program and other unresolved issues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

It was all she could hear before Juan’s thrash of electric guitar exploded across the song, blotting out the rest of the lyrics.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

Wind thrashes around the car park in the dim dawn light, rattling the corrugated supermarket shutters and sending discarded carrier bags billowing as rain tumbles on to the asphalt.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

Park thrashes through the “Hedwig” songbook with aplomb; high points include the headbanger “Angry Inch,” the aching anthem “Wicked Little Town” and “Wig in a Box,” a tour-de-force tune of self-discovery.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

“When the virus thrashes your lungs, then what’s left is lung damage, and your body just has to heal that on its own,” he says.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

The more he thrashes around the deeper he sinks, quixotically abandoning his withdrawal agreement bill just as it won a 30-vote majority.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019

DD thrashes, but there are too many ropes for her to do much.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

But in an ironic twist, part of the parking lot was underwater, a tractor had raised a berm to hold back the ocean, and just to the south, homes were being thrashed by waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Powerful waves thrashed communities along California's southern coast Friday, damaging homes and sending water cascading through streets as residents braced for more potential damage wrought by Tropical Storm Rachel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Gloucester thrashed a limp Harlequins at Kingsholm to go to the top of the early Prem standings.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Trade bible Variety called it a "lacerating portrait," while Deadline said the "damning" film had "thrashed" Musk as "petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel."

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

I kicked and thrashed and stomped, but his boots were thick—no match for my shoes’ soft soles—and his muscles were like rocks after decades of hard labor against the earth.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

A 35-6 road thrashing by Jacksonville prompted a predictable surge in doomsdayism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

England have set themselves up nicely to finish unbeaten in T20s this summer after thrashing India 4-0 earlier in the year.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

They headlined Coachella in 2025, a rare heavy rock band to top the most influential festival in the U.S., delivering a raucous and thrashing set unlike any in the last decade of Coachella headliners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The 29-year-old's time of 1:56.38 was rapid for four lengths of furious thrashing, each one a different stroke.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Anya could see the wild Dnieper River behind her, its waves thrashing against its shores as it hurtled past.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack