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.
While I am the original flogger of dead horses, some anguish just ain't worth it.
He boiled beetroot to sell and made and flogged ginger beer. Times, Sunday Times
I try not to flog my guts out. The Sun
So is this a glorious return or are the publishers flogging a dead horse? Times, Sunday Times
They were flogging a dead horse. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
He was publicly flogged for breaking the country's alcohol laws.
That sort of behaviour could get her flogged, or at the vest least locked in a pillory for a while.
If he didn't become a telly millionaire turning out musical trash they could be flogged for a few pounds.
They were flogging a dead horse. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Anyone caught with a copy was flogged in the stadium before a jeering crowd of onlookers.
Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
The warm January sun flogged me like a bullwhip.
Pam's flogging a dead horse trying to organize the theatre trip. It's quite obvious that nobody's interested.
ya know 'flogger' is a good name for a lamb...only a few years 'til the 'F' animals, right farmgirl? Soup & Sandwich
Many staff claim they are under huge pressure to flog products at any cost. The Sun
One thing they had in abundance and were merrily flogging off was a strange collapsible bag-thing with a mesh top.
She sold at low prices, could not do basic maths and then flogged the products really cheaply. The Sun
The teacher often flogged the students
DigitalBulletin says Virgin has said no more than it`ll offer a million tracks, the identical standard fare the Big Four record labels flog to all their customers at exorbitant wholesale prices. HMV, Virgin, music downloads
In Isacus (122) it is related how Euthukrates in a quarrel over a boundary-stone was so flogged by his _brother_ Thoudippos that, dying some days after, he charged his friends (οἱκεῖοι) not to allow any of On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
There's page after page of advertisements in our Sunday papers for property floggers and it's all Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Fancy dress shops flog wigs like this for around a tenner. The Sun
Equally ineffective will be forcing retail banks to flog branches. The Sun
A mother brings her truant son to school to be flogged for neglecting his studies in favour of gambling.
They should flog him and flay him if they so desire.
Or fail like the word "flog" (a fake blog for promotional purposes)? Five words shaping our future
I seem to recall a certain curly haired Yonge street vendor flogging his poetry chapbooks. Entitlement: Jonathan Bennett Interview
Pace arrow flogs you if your speed dips below your current ride average.
An addendum to the above, it's a pity that the Democrats are focusing on this issue to "flog" the Republicans before the elections. Saturday Moments: From torture & Republican sex scandals to zombies
The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death.
The area is known as the coral coast and you'll find numerous small shops in Alghero devoted to flogging coral jewellery.
Anyone publishing it should be shanghaied aboard a hell-ship and flogged through the horse latitudes.
Mobile salesmen may also try to flog you policies you don't need. The Sun
Once in that position his clothing was torn from his body, his arms and legs pinioned, and his bare back flogged with a "cowhide" until the blood ran from it, and the gashes made in his flesh by the cruel strokes presented a ghastly spectacle as they gaped open. Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
He enumerates more of its advantages, but he adds, “he who has not been flogged is not learned.” Letter 177
A much better deterrent than flogging would be an efficient police service, coupled with the speedy administration of justice.
The real shock came in 2002 in Birmingham, England's biggest city outside London, where tenants voted two to one against flogging off their houses.
Trying to flog a roof-down, rear-wheel drive sports car in winter? The Sun
The word 'new' has really been flogged to death in advertisements, and nobody believes it any more.
I'm flogging off the precious things and owt that's not nailed down.
Its reassuring to find oneself almost agreeing with Melanie again. .but: laughable as it is for this dreadful new labour hack to pretend that paying to be tied up and flogged is only depraved if you wear the wrong costume; isnt the public exposure of depravity its own kind of lechery (to paraphrase Dr Johnson)? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Or the people trying to flog them stuff. Times, Sunday Times
After the flogging, Mick becomes an imposing monster in his house, threatening his wife, and developing a severely unfatherly interest in his youngest daughter.
A Calvinist proctor in the nineteenth century had noticed its contributors were all insubordinates and shut it down: by fines or flogging where possible, arson where not.
Are we flogging a dead horse trying to save our marriage? The Sun
She is sorry to find he is discontented, which is sinful and horrid, and hopes Mr. Squeers will flog him into a happier state of mind. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
He may as well have clapped me in irons and commenced flogging in front of the herds of law-abiding legal visitors.
There are dozens of similar outfits flogging spy-in-the-sky wares to our town hall valuers. The Sun
Clare did not ‘start from nothing’ but, after taking a degree in applied maths from Edinburgh, he learnt his trade the hard way, slogging around newsagents in Bradford trying to flog them Mars bars.
I try not to flog my guts out. The Sun
He and his brother Rob were inspirational and they led, spiritually, a lot of those training sessions because they would turn up covered in straw, sweat, mud and goodness knows what else, and they would flog themselves in every training session, and then go back to the farm" – Paul Cullen following the death of Garry Purdham, whom he coached at Whitehaven, in the Cumbrian shootings. My Super League awards show
I built a fearsome reputation through stickling over trivialities, and set the seal on it by publicly flogging a colonel (because one of his men was late for roll-call) at the first of the great fortnightly reviews which the Queen and court attended. Flashman's Lady
Just as Bligh was willing and eager to flog, keelhaul and starve any human being who stood in the way of his career, so our bourgeoisie will flog, keelhaul and starve the national interest "" with every slum-dweller, rickshawpuller and day-labourer as victim "" in the promotion of their own self-interest. Cap'n Blimey
Perhaps he should have tried flogging them some more marble to decorate their office.
Retailers, sadly, are pitching to empty pockets and trying to flog 'woohoo' partywear to people with no place to 'woohoo'. Times, Sunday Times
Pam's flogging a dead horse trying to organize the theatre trip. It's quite obvious that nobody's interested.
If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
It was impounded by police and kept in a lock-up until 1980 before being flogged. The Sun
When Kev and Mike come bearing gifts, they want to flog them down their local, promising the barmaid a cut of the profits.
The play still shocks with the pettiness of the offences that have brought the convicts to the flogger or the hangman.
The story suffocates under endless speechifying and analysis in which each point is flogged to death.
The first 150,000 tickets were flogged in an incredible 14 minutes. The Sun
For example, when a key staffer is dismissed for pretending to be public servant with fake credentials, its a requirement to metaphorically flog the offender - not kiss him goodbye - as a sign of respect to the civic employees who actually take the public trust seriously. PubliQuestion: Most Voters Shrug Off McGinn Missteps « PubliCola
But nothing could have exceeded the loneliness of that shore and backland, palpitating under the flogging of a tropical sun. Moran of the Lady Letty
The sentence of the court was carried out by a scourger, sometimes called flagellator, or flogger. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
Or try to flog your tickets? Times, Sunday Times
It was a pleasure to flog her, to defend her, to scrutinize, criticize and idolize her.
For the consumer, it's less important that armies of geeks get to play with data clouds and mashing data and getting to flog their widgets than it is to have working systems that really take serious feedback and deliver serious and useable information which simply * has* to start with * acknowledgement of feedback and digesting and mirroring of feedback*. A Request to CIO Kundra: Get Bureaucrats Involved in data.gov
The bare feet are beautiful, elegant and feminine but bring to mind the bastinado, the terrible flogging of the feet.
It is punctuated by public floggings and whippings.
This training was underpinned by punitive disciplinary codes; troops were drilled, flogged, and caned into being more afraid of their officers than they were of the enemy.
Children no older than you are had to work twelve hours a day for cruel masters, who flogged them with whips if they worked too slowly and fed them on nothing but stale breadcrusts and water.
They are trying to flog their house.
The suspect was flogged into confession.
It's really just a poorly disguised attempt to flog the company's online market stats service.
Can't a guy use the word abreast 2 : up to a particular standard or level especially of knowledge of recent developments without getting flogged? Hello/Goodbye
IT seems telly shopping channels just want to flog anti-ageing products to women. The Sun
Was it Pontius Pilate and the Roman soldiers who had flogged him, beaten him, and crucified him?
Meanwhile, two teams of would-be Bargain Hunters pick up objets d' art at knock-down prices from their local antique fair and then try to flog them down the auction room.
It plainly wants to compete aggressively like a commercial broadcaster - so the Government might as well now flog it to a real one. The Sun
Like the sadistic Victorian flogger telling his victim that ‘this hurts me more than it hurts you’, Moll is - if we follow this line of explanation - a double-dyed hypocrite.
Critics mocked him for trying to flog it alongside items like vacuum cleaners. The Sun
Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
Love how you cite kos as saying the source was somewhere other than his stew of diarists, who picked something up, expanded it to something they chose to "flog" - their words, and think that's a reliable source. Palinsanity.
Then try to guess the prices at which these tickets are being flogged. Times, Sunday Times
Flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails and hanging were the major punishments.
The first 150,000 tickets were flogged in an incredible 14 minutes. The Sun
She sold at low prices, could not do basic maths and then flogged the products really cheaply. The Sun
And the only other thing that I'm here to flog is my book, as Anna Porter says. Malice in Blunderland
He was headmaster of Oundle School between 1718 and 1722, where he acquired the reputation of a keen flogger.
A flogging might have been marginally less painful. Times, Sunday Times
Tommy Lovenkrands' hopeful shot from distance deflected off Thomas Flogel and beyond a helpless Antti Niemi.
This is a dead draw, but Karpov flogged a very dead horse until move 86 before acquiescing in the inevitable.
When you flog Tom Murray, you are really chastising the Tom Murray in yourself ... that is, the part that your wife knows so well -- the part of you that leaves the new graip out in the rain all night, that rebels against the authority of the School Board and the inspectorate. A Dominie in Doubt
Glitter is Dot Cotton in foot-thick panstick, flogging a dead horse until its bones are a pile of dust.
Unfreid didn't want the boys expelled, so instead he called them and their teacher down to the school basement, took off his belt and had the teacher flog him until the boys admitted they were wrong.
He tracks down and exposes wonder-working nuns and other charlatans, leftovers from The Canterbury Tales, and instead of hanging or flogging them compels them to confess their fraudulence in public. The Men Who Made England
You walk around in costume like Stillmog with his Utilikilt or in green like my Flogging Molly t-shirt, or in modern grunge like my brother, aka a hooded sweatshirt and dirty jeans. I’m Feeling Irish « A Working Title
Coincidentally, one of the salesmen who tried to flog me a car was an Assyrian Christian from Kirkuk!
One of the protest groups, known as April 6, said a notorious police commander in Alexandria, known as the "flogger of the activists," had been promoted to a top security position in the city. Egyptians rally, demand trials for police shooters
Are you going to say that flogging is never torture because some people submit themselves to it voluntarily? Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation
It's a ferocious and demanding sport and it takes a very special sort of bloke to put their body on their line, but it takes an even more courageous and humble man to go into a game knowing his team is about to cop a flogging.
A marketing department gets stuck on one promotional idea and just flogs it to death.
People who sing loving songs accompanied on the guitar should be publicly flogged. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
So the award must be for flogging off services to the private companies.
Is he trying to flog stuff? Times, Sunday Times
So they clomb over the roofs and coming down through the sky-light, 210 saw him naked and flogging himself and asked him, “What aileth thee, O Khalifah?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Assorted whistle sellers, hot-dog vendors and T-shirt floggers stalked the crowd.
Why does it feel like a public flogging every time you have to speak in class?
Offenders were publicly flogged.
It is generally stated that the flogger is a sexual pervert, a Sadist, and undoubtedly there are pathological cases where men find sexual gratification in inflicting or in watching the infliction of pain. A Dominie in Doubt
Staff are furious at being placed under pressure to flog products to the public. The Sun
She distances herself from "hangers and floggers" and, remarkably, says that she wants her husband's killer to lead a "fulfilled" life.
She was keen to speak when she was flogging tickets to her last tour. The Sun
The daily flogging is actually one of the bennies. McGinn Staff Received Salary Increases While Mayor Froze Salaries in Other Departments « PubliCola
Defectors and apostates can't be fined, flogged or banished.
Critics mocked him for trying to flog it alongside items like vacuum cleaners. The Sun
I'm going to flog all my old video tapes.
Let's say you, too, are a truly revolutionary business flogging fridges and washing machines over the interweb. Times, Sunday Times
If there could be a wall of shame or a pillaring-pole in which to flog electric companies, I would place LIPA (Long Island Power Authority) up on it. Long Island Power Deals Another Fiscal Blow to Customers
Fancy dress shops flog wigs like this for around a tenner. The Sun
With those shirts he definitely can't take himself seriously Is he trying to flog stuff? Times, Sunday Times
Third degree can, according to the circumstances, consist amongst other methods, of: very simple diet (bread and water) hard bunk dark cell deprivation of sleep exhaustive drilling also in flogging (for more than 20 strokes a doctor must be consulted). Quote of the day
King himself has acknowledged that he's ‘the literary equivalent of a Big Mac’, and his books sell on a comparable scale - no writer now living has flogged as many copies.
In the silent movie The Snowman by Wallace McCutcheon, a chain-smoking snowman is swigging whiskey and appears in the rest of the film sloshed, inspiring a flogging by the townspeople. Boing Boing
I'm not normally a violent person but I felt like flogging him with a full stocking.
The rank of subdeacon suffices for election; the Abb ‚ Legendre relates in his memoirs as a contemporary incident that one of these young legislators, after an escapade, was soundly flogged by his perceptor who had accompanied him to Paris. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Are we flogging a dead horse trying to save our marriage? The Sun
The first 150,000 tickets were flogged in an incredible 14 minutes. The Sun
It, for example, reintroduced a system of punishment specifically forbidden by the Imperial Abolition Act: the flogging of women.
However, there's a danger that a successful formula be flogged to death.
Most people who visit Fun Town expect to be able to sit quietly at an outside beer boozer and be pestered around 800 times an hour by the forlorn multitude of watch sellers, shoe shiners, cigarette floggers, carpet baggers, flower peddlers, photo snappers and others too numerous to mention.
She sold at low prices, could not do basic maths and then flogged the products really cheaply. The Sun
These bottles bear witness to the multitude who tried to take advantage of the distinctive flask to flog off their own less-than-distinctive swill.
Then flog unwanted items so you can buy it without it actually costing you money. The Sun
His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the companies were in tele-sales, flogging advertising space for DIY magazines and the like. THE RHYTHM SECTION
He was flogged until his back was bloody, forcing him to sleep on his stomach in the tiny cell in prison in which he was jailed.
I had him flogged, but it was a pyrrhic victory: the woman promptly ran off with the peasant, and the tour guide with my money.
With those shirts he definitely can't take himself seriously Is he trying to flog stuff? Times, Sunday Times
Peter felt this question, asked only out of concern and worry, to be the final stroke of the whip of ignominy that had flogged him all afternoon.
He flogging his horse in a very cruel way.
They've put a horrible paragraph into one of the newspapers saying that I got so "flogged" that I haven't been able to stir since. The Small House at Allington
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The suspect was flogged into confession.
About 300 shops sell used wares, and heck, even the airport and post office flog the goods.
As U-turns go, it makes the recent conversion of that MP from hanger and flogger to the acceptable face of breakfast TV seem inconsequential.
She flogged her guitar to another student.
Again he tries to sail too close to the direction the wind, and the sail just flogs.
In the midst of it all, I found that for every person who publicly flogged me there was another who agreed with my position entirely.
The book is 479 pages long and is flogged as a no-holds-barred tell-all.
Or the people trying to flog them stuff. Times, Sunday Times
Chat shows exist because people have product to flog. Times, Sunday Times
Chat shows exist because people have product to flog. Times, Sunday Times
I try not to flog my guts out. The Sun
They were prepared to take the brasses off the door, to take the door off the hinges, and flog the lot.
The new leader did very little other than regurgitate a tired old line that seemed to have been flogged to death by many a centre-right politician.
Reas the bonder himself, who had many a time flogged him for his disobedience and idleness, and who now watched him riding downward to the ships, did not recognize his former bondslave in the handsome and gaily attired young warrior. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age
It seems likely that one sculpture is copied from the other, or that both were copied from an ‘original’ flogging sculpture.
Oh Yeah, when you're flying over the Cape in a six-seater and you hit that shitty turbulence and madras-whale-panted gentlemen next to you starts to freak out, you're also going to need some: Monster Magnet, Motorhead, Flogging Molly, The Hives, Fu Manchu and Afghan Whigs. Fishing with an iPod... Fair or Foul?
IT seems telly shopping channels just want to flog anti-ageing products to women. The Sun
By heavens, I'll make him obey, or I'll -- "-- Here Mr Easy stopped before the word flog was fairly out of his mouth, --" I'll know the reason why, Dr Middleton. Mr. Midshipman Easy
It was impounded by police and kept in a lock-up until 1980 before being flogged. The Sun
The usual crucifixion began with the victim being flogged and severely beaten.
With those shirts he definitely can't take himself seriously Is he trying to flog stuff? Times, Sunday Times
Petrol stations with large forecourts and public houses with car parks attached are now so valuable that the profit to be derived from flogging them off to builders will far exceed the profit to be derived from continuing to trade.
We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades.
Is this - heavily anonymous - tip-off just another way of keeping the tired old show on the road long enough to flog the book to a few more sweaty Telegraph readers?
Staff are furious at being placed under pressure to flog products to the public. The Sun
He flogged away, but hung his fly clear of the stream at every second cast and deceived not the smallest troutlet of them all. Lying Prophets
And so the imaginary flogging was finished to his satisfaction.
Microsoft has emerged as a chief flogger of an antitrust case against Google. The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket
Chat shows exist because people have product to flog. Times, Sunday Times
Fantastically beautiful place, once you plough through the hawkers outside desperately trying to flog you the little red book (which is, obviously, both red and little).
How cruel was the man to flog his own son to death!
Regret about the abolition of droit de seigneur and the right of feudal overlords to flog peasants may be comic, but it is hardly an interesting political philosophy.
Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
`Except I can't pretend that flogging intruder alarms to exiled Iranians fulfils a lifelong ambition. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
'In the nineteenth century the Turks were hopelessly beaten, and the Porte was falling to pieces under the world's eye, yet the Austrians were flogging their peoples to keep them in subjection exactly as if there were a terrifying enemy at their gates.' Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
Last year retailer Argos hit the headlines when it tried to flog Sony TVs for just £3.
His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache. Times, Sunday Times
It's just the kind of logic employed by mediaeval pardoners flogging pigs' bones as holy relics.
Many staff claim they are under huge pressure to flog products at any cost. The Sun
Now if it is barbaric to flog in school where it really should start, how can licks be of any help to a hard-back criminal?
In line with the JAPUNDIT philosophy that no horse is too dead to flog (as demonstrated by our numerous articles on sushi and Hello Kitty goods), starting from tomorrow (February 9) we will be highlighting a unique or interesting earpick design on a daily basis. Pickin’ and grinnin’ » Japundit Blog
But if there is a large quantity this does not pay, and the contractor brings in another artist called a "flogger," who, in nine cases out of ten, in my time, was an Irishman. The Life Story of an Old Rebel
So is it a company that builds and sells operating systems, or is its core business flogging sundry services and stuff to you?
Heck, he could probably flog you a crummy endowment mortgage and a rubbish personal pension plan.
But Mr. Bernabe doesn't have much family silver left to sell after Mr. Tronchetti flogged off property assets and many Latin American telecom businesses. Victor in Spain Faces Challenge

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