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UK
/flˈɒɡɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈfɫɑɡɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɑɡɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
How To Use flogging 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.
- 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
- Singapore still considers graffiti an offense punishable by flogging.
- 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
- They were flogging a dead horse. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
- Pam's flogging a dead horse trying to organize the theatre trip. It's quite obvious that nobody's interested.
- One thing they had in abundance and were merrily flogging off was a strange collapsible bag-thing with a mesh top.