How To Use Flogging In A Sentence
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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.
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His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache.
Times, Sunday Times
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A friend there tells me his image is everywhere, flogging anything from sunglasses to after-shave, underwear to sunscreen.
The Sun
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Singapore still considers graffiti an offense punishable by flogging.
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So is this a glorious return or are the publishers flogging a dead horse?
Times, Sunday Times
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They were flogging a dead horse.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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They were flogging a dead horse.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
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Pam's flogging a dead horse trying to organize the theatre trip. It's quite obvious that nobody's interested.
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One thing they had in abundance and were merrily flogging off was a strange collapsible bag-thing with a mesh top.
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I seem to recall a certain curly haired Yonge street vendor flogging his poetry chapbooks.
Entitlement: Jonathan Bennett Interview
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The area is known as the coral coast and you'll find numerous small shops in Alghero devoted to flogging coral jewellery.
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A much better deterrent than flogging would be an efficient police service, coupled with the speedy administration of justice.
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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.
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I'm flogging off the precious things and owt that's not nailed down.
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After the flogging, Mick becomes an imposing monster in his house, threatening his wife, and developing a severely unfatherly interest in his youngest daughter.
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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.
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Are we flogging a dead horse trying to save our marriage?
The Sun
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He may as well have clapped me in irons and commenced flogging in front of the herds of law-abiding legal visitors.
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There are dozens of similar outfits flogging spy-in-the-sky wares to our town hall valuers.
The Sun
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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
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Perhaps he should have tried flogging them some more marble to decorate their office.
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Pam's flogging a dead horse trying to organize the theatre trip. It's quite obvious that nobody's interested.
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If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
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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
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The bare feet are beautiful, elegant and feminine but bring to mind the bastinado, the terrible flogging of the feet.
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It is punctuated by public floggings and whippings.
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Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
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Flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails and hanging were the major punishments.
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A flogging might have been marginally less painful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glitter is Dot Cotton in foot-thick panstick, flogging a dead horse until its bones are a pile of dust.
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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
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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
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Are you going to say that flogging is never torture because some people submit themselves to it voluntarily?
Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation
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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.
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So the award must be for flogging off services to the private companies.
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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
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Why does it feel like a public flogging every time you have to speak in class?
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She was keen to speak when she was flogging tickets to her last tour.
The Sun
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The daily flogging is actually one of the bennies.
McGinn Staff Received Salary Increases While Mayor Froze Salaries in Other Departments « PubliCola
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Let's say you, too, are a truly revolutionary business flogging fridges and washing machines over the interweb.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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I'm not normally a violent person but I felt like flogging him with a full stocking.
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Are we flogging a dead horse trying to save our marriage?
The Sun
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It, for example, reintroduced a system of punishment specifically forbidden by the Imperial Abolition Act: the flogging of women.
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His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the companies were in tele-sales, flogging advertising space for DIY magazines and the like.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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He flogging his horse in a very cruel way.
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It seems likely that one sculpture is copied from the other, or that both were copied from an ‘original’ flogging sculpture.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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And so the imaginary flogging was finished to his satisfaction.
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Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
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Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
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`Except I can't pretend that flogging intruder alarms to exiled Iranians fulfils a lifelong ambition.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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'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
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His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's just the kind of logic employed by mediaeval pardoners flogging pigs' bones as holy relics.
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So is it a company that builds and sells operating systems, or is its core business flogging sundry services and stuff to you?
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The former home of immigrants flogging salami and bratwurst is now suited to a different type of meat, the paparazzi.
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Flogging, branding, keelhauling, locking sailors in chains, walking the plank, and hanging were used in this era.
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His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are also flogging their stage jackets, which cannot be fresh.
The Sun
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Severe flogging with the bamboo, rattan, cudgel, and knotted whip successively, is one of the most usual means of extorting confession; and when death results from the process, the magistrate reports that the criminal has died of sickness, and in the few cases in which there may be reason to dread investigation, the administration of a bribe to the deceased man's friends insures silence.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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They are also flogging their stage jackets, which cannot be fresh.
The Sun
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In the silky afternoon air we clop along past Spanish-style pastel-hued houses, under palms and pepper trees, by clumps of old men with leathery skin stretched tight over high, sharp bones, alongside energetic murals, beneath baroque cathedrals with big cedar doors, and beside shops flogging crocodile boots and Cuban cigars.
Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
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Let's say you, too, are a truly revolutionary business flogging fridges and washing machines over the interweb.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were flogging a dead horse.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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So is this a glorious return or are the publishers flogging a dead horse?
Times, Sunday Times
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A gantlet is a flogging ordeal, literally or figuratively.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sudanese UN female employee Lubna Hussein faced threats of imprisonment and flogging for the “sin” of wearing trousers in Khartoum - and her saga is far from over.
Global Voices in English » Egyptians React to the Sudanese “Sin”
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He was flogging his horse in a very cruel way.
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She was last seen working as a merchant banker flogging pork belly futures to Mongolian sheepherders.
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Perhaps he should have tried flogging them some more marble to decorate their office.
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He fell into the trap of flogging the players at training and settling too early on his Test team.
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The instrument used in this case, (the regular flogging stick having been _used up_ by previous service,) was the commander's cane -- _a heavy knotted club_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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It pictures a man holding a whip, and flogging himself with it.
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A dominatrix is teaching aerobics classes in NYC that threaten flogging for flaggers.
Boing Boing: April 13, 2003 - April 19, 2003 Archives
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Sometimes flogging is a punishment for drunkenness.
Think Progress » Conservative Activists Rebel Against Fox News: Saudi Ownership Is ‘Really Dangerous For America’
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Mind, it later emerged that the £30 bn sale of public assets would be heavily based on local government flogging off its various landholdings - a potential nightmare if that includes precious playing fields.
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The dungeon is pretty equipped, has a medical table and has lots of flogging and corporeal equipment which is pretty impressive.
I made it! First night at Bellas…not bad. « Bound, Not Gagged
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Among its dour treasures: a flogging bench with handmade flog, and a grisly purse made of skin from the hand of Burke the bodysnatcher himself.
Barry Yourgrau: A Remembrance In Edinburgh
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Singapore still considers graffiti an offense punishable by flogging.
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He handed it to one of the pirates in order to take the real whip he intended on flogging her with.
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If this blog flogging or "flobbing" if you prefer results in Mr. Warren becoming an ongoing writer of Iron Man, I will become your own personal Jarvis.
IRON MAN #126 Marvel Comics, 1979
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I need to start giving awards - the flogging is not working. at
Pleasantly surprised
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But the notion seems to go against the general concept of eBay, which is about flogging off unwanted stuff cheap.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although it is nowhere near the £33m one of the market leaders is coughing up on flogging broadband, it's still expected to be a fair old wedge.
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So is this a glorious return or are the publishers flogging a dead horse?
Times, Sunday Times
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This draconian legislation included provision for flogging, curfew, and internment.
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These days, even hotels are flogging the notion that anything is better if you cyberize it.
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UK resellers selling cheap Microsoft software are not necessarily flogging pirated goods.
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In that long-gone decade, the prospect of watching a stageful of black men perform a "comic" minstrel show about so hideous an event would have stung like a flogging.
A Perilous Page of History to Turn
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An estate agent in March is flogging off ex Royal Observation Corps nuclear bunkers.
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He would watch an execution or a flogging with evident enjoyment.
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The 2005 profile that Beck is flogging actually makes it crystal clear -- even in the headline -- that Jones has "renounced" his earlier views, matured and moved on.
Eva Paterson: Glenn Beck's Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies and Falsehoods
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His proposed business was flogging office chairs that healed back ache.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was keen to speak when she was flogging tickets to her last tour.
The Sun
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She was keen to speak when she was flogging tickets to her last tour.
The Sun
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Telewest is flogging its cable broadband service for less than the price of unmetered dial-up access in a bid to attract new punters.
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There was nothing more boring than flogging around, looking for something like a bike without lights.
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Are we flogging a dead horse trying to save our marriage?
The Sun
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They would cultivate a military bearing, trying to take a disciplinary flogging with manly indifference, and giving a smart salute after it.
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You really got a funny look on your face, when I was talking about my fantasy public flogging session on Benny.
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This sanction worked better in securing good behaviour than the threat of flogging.
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Art and life have become merged by their geniuses, and that rare talent has been turned into sophisticated ways of flogging us even more stuff.
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There was also a photograph of a dirty foot that some joker was flogging for two grand.
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Worth not summoning my chucker-out to finish the flogging that seems to have been started aboard my ship?
City of Glory
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Drawn from Melville's experiences in the navy, it compellingly condemned the practice of flogging, and may have influenced its outlawing.
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Lenders make serious bucks from flogging high-priced insurance policies to their cardholders.
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They are also flogging their stage jackets, which cannot be fresh.
The Sun
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If arrested, the migrants and asylum-seekers are lumped together in tiny immigration detention cells where flogging is the main form of punishment.
Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Humans as Commodities
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Why not also revert to flogging, birching, amputation and so on.
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While gangstas expend their energy promoting fashion labels or flogging sneakers, even the grimiest rappers are positively buffed by Jamaican standards.
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See Arnold in a box; see Arnold hefting aluminum tea pots; see Arnold slurping noodles, touting hyper-caffeine energy drinks, flogging beer, see the depths of Arnold.
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Oh yes please; tar and feathering and/or flogging first though. radgie gadgie
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Those who have followed me in my narrative will remember that I was witness to an act of great cruelty inflicted upon my own shipmates; and indeed I can sincerely say that the simple mention of the word flogging, brings up in me feelings which I can hardly control.
Concluding Chapter
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He had made serious errors of judgement, but he had also tried to improve naval gunnery, reform the promotion system, and limit flogging.