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US
/ˈfɫɑɡ/
]
[ UK /flˈɒɡ/ ]
[ UK /flˈɒɡ/ ]
VERB
- beat with a cane
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beat severely with a whip or rod
The children were severely trounced
The teacher often flogged the students
How To Use flog In A Sentence
- Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
- There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
- His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache. Times, Sunday Times
- A friend there tells me his image is everywhere, flogging anything from sunglasses to after-shave, underwear to sunscreen. The Sun
- S: (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
- He went on to say that the fugitives had been pursued and captured and brought back to bondage; and upon Borrow's admitting that he had been the instigator of the adventure, he was sentenced to be flogged, and that it was on the back of this very Martineau that he had been "horsed" to undergo the punishment! Hawthorne and His Circle
- But my point is, how many tickets do you need to flog to sell out a rugby ground - 10-15,000?
- To give some credit to Dr Cullen, he did finally gazette those changes, which have at least required farmland to be publicly advertised for sale in New Zealand before it is flogged off overseas - never mind how small the advertisement is.
- James Cook a more enthusiastic flogger than Bligh, the author notes, but Bligh had been, I think, over-promoted. Bounteous Misperceptions
- Singapore still considers graffiti an offense punishable by flogging.