How To Use Thrashing In A Sentence

Two gabled mansions with curly upturned eaves are connected by a horizontal two-storey section, topped with yellow-bodied, blue-headed dragons with large pointy teeth and tails thrashing the air.
Rick Rubin's severe, thrashing beat to proper effect; Hov courteously brought his instant-quotation A-game for his label founder's return to rap. NPR Topics: News
Anything that the dying republicans can do at this point, including thrashing around and digging up newt from the grave, while their Dear Leader’s days in office disappear after every sundown, they will do. House Republicans Continue Vacation Protest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Returned home he relates the incident, and only through his mother's intercession escapes a thrashing from his honest father, for telling a lie.
The Reds had clocked up what was then their biggest ever win by thrashing Gateshead 90-12 on Wednesday.

After thrashing him, one of the youths pulled a pistol and shot him in the stomach.
It's nice to think of them picturing Father Christmas and his sleigh whooshing across frosty rooftops, as opposed to me thrashing my way around a soulless out-of-town shopping centre.
He got a sound thrashing once his father found out.
Their thrashings were also, she presumed, merely instinctual. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
G'day, Robbo - last time I had the pleasure of speaking to you, we were thrashing you Poms at the cricket.
He got a sound thrashing once his father found out.
If you want to swim really fast, stop thrashing about, relax and feel the water.
Kids from the local village quickly got into the swing and gave the Brunei lads a sound thrashing.
The musicians in the band are just as comfortable thrashing out with The Misfits and The Ramones as they are riffing with Ted Nugent or KISS.
From the metallic zizz of the starter motor and the first flurry of revs to the final frantic thrashings of the crankshaft, this is swansong motoring.
Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks.
Farm labourers stand on top of the thrashing machine in shirt sleeves and braces, waiting for work to begin.
-- after cornhusking was all husked and the oats thrashing all thrashed and the rutabaga digging all dug, I took eight dollars and a half in my inside vest pocket and I went to the hardware store. Rootabaga Stories
When the Muslim boys heard him calling them names, all of them gave him a sound thrashing.
To the band's credit, this only seems to increase their pummelling potential, provoking them into walloping, abusing and thrashing their amps harder than ever.
Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience. Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish
The normally calm, sleepy pool at Dalry was a mass of thrashing flippers, heaving bodies and random limbs.
I'll give you the thrashing you deserve.
Fortunately the possible replacements, to appear alongside James Anderson and Stuart Broad , include man-mountain Chris Tremlett and increasingly pacy beanpole Steven Finn , whose bowling in similar conditions was one of the very few pluses of England's disastrous 5-0 one-day international thrashing in India in October. Pakistan Transformed for Test vs. England
The grain shocks would be off-loaded into the thrashing machines.
One of our group had reeled in a length of free-floating fishing line to find it attached to a thrashing barracuda.
Discovery of one of his drawings led to a thrashing. Times, Sunday Times
The girl was thrashing about in the water.
Outside could be heard the creak and thud of damaged trees, and the thrashing of errant guttering and plastic garden furniture.
It says something about our culture that the biggest film released during our biggest celebration of love is a story about one person mercilessly thrashing another. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds.
Someone was thrashing around in the water, obviously in trouble.
You know how when garden hoses get all kinky, and then you turn on the water and they start thrashing around like snakes and the water jets out everwhere?
Scotland were involved in yet another thrashing yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
The creature roared in agony, thrashing about and spewing gouts of blood, until it lay quivering in a pool of its own gore.
It followed a 4-1 thrashing at home to Charlton. The Sun
Seconds later he was on the other side of the penalty box, thrashing in a drive that just skidded past the post.
And as a final jibe he remarked that it was always sad to see a politician at the end of his career thrashing around for an issue.
The thrashing wings of a mallard skimmed over their heads. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
After defeating Burnley and thrashing Gillingham 7-1, the young Blues will find it much tougher at Goodison Park.
The team managed to be in focus for a final berth till that thrashing by Australia, which won 8-3.
The two sides have been thrashing out the fine details of his performance - and the all-important pay cheque. The Sun
Four years later though, and I was the only one still thrashing around in the shallow end, terrified of getting his head underwater.
Her thrashing solo builds into a tantrum, fists and feet thumping the floor, only for her colleagues to glide across the stage like the coolest of cats. Times, Sunday Times
Ashley Giles is confident that England will recover from the thrashing.
A family who went to confront an intruder in their garden were surprised to find a young deer thrashing around in their swimming pool.
A group of strangers bopped around the remains of a fatal car accident; I sang and can-canned my legs, like I did as we passed a moshpit of people thrashing themselves together into a mush. Ballspenden
The old man was thrashing the soy - bean crop.
A second moment they devoted to the wreckage of the same on deck -- the mizzen-topmast, thrust through the spanker and supported vertically by the stout canvas, thrashing back and forth with each thrash of the sail, the main - topmast squarely across the ruined companionway to the steerage. CHAPTER XV
Fullback Percy Montgomery spearheaded the Stormers to a 40-13 thrashing of the Hurricanes in a Super 12 rugby match here last night.
Betsy made bleating sounds of passion; our thrashing limbs rearranged themselves several times; my clutching fingers dug deep into her meaty buttocks; the mechanical thrustings went on and on and on. Up The Line
Joshua grabbed the whip, thrashing the master again and again.
Pretty soon I sat up with a jerk as something was thrashing like mad in the thorn bush above my head.
Thrashing wildly, she flailed her arms and legs in a desperate attempt to move upwards, to the surface, to salvation.
This is a thrashing,' said a presidential aide. Times, Sunday Times
Men took a verbal thrashing as they were labelled unromantic (57%), thoughtless (35%) and inconsiderate (24%). Men encouraged to think outside the chocolate box
Richmond clinched promotion with a 50-3 thrashing of Roundhay.
They are thrashing their wheat.
It is a stellar performance - Keith Moon's orgiastic flailing, mugging, and thrashing behind the kit leaves one utterly transfixed, and that's just a quarter of the group's dynamic.
By thrashing around for solutions to the ‘politics of behaviour’ in this way, the government is helping to fuel the spiral of fear and alienation across society.
Why, because at times, an egotist sense of self is so diminished and endemic, its false survival unknowingly depends on thrashing, belittling and insulting others to maintain a continuous sick illusionary story in their head necessary to misleadingly feed and encourage a diminished sense of self. Page 2
West Bowling A handed out a 56-4 thrashing at bottom club Rotherham.
Her lawyers have been ruthless in thrashing out a divorce settlement.
The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates. Isabelle
Sources claim they are still thrashing out the details of the announcement. The Sun
It is a further example of the way Capello is thrashing around in the dark. The Sun
He insists that after hearing what specialists had to say he was even more convinced he was right, and that Howard was an old political leader thrashing around for an issue.
Together, they are caught in a mesh of crosses and double-crosses like a shoal of herring thrashing around in a net.
Kicking and thrashing, Jennifer desperately struggled to break free.
Many commentators have spent the week thrashing around in an attempt to discover what it means.
The girl was thrashing about in the water.
I hope we can give those Americans a jolly good thrashing. The Sun
This is a thrashing,' said a presidential aide. Times, Sunday Times
He had concluded long ago that all possible relations, even those of enmity -- practical enmity at least -- were over between them, and that Mr Beauchamp considered the bejan sufficiently punished for thrashing him, by being deprived of his condescending notice for the rest of the ages. Alec Forbes of Howglen
But the sight of me thrashing around on my funboard, for some reason, excited him to hysteria. Kook
So, to a screech of whistles the band plunge into a set full of jangling guitars and thrashing drums.
Since his public standing hit an all-time low following his divorce he has been thrashing around for some means to enhance his popularity.
He went on, wading through, thrashing about in this confused sea of pain. THE GOLDEN LION
Thrashing my way along, this guy powered past me, turbulence all round, power-boat wake.
She might be thrashing or acquiescent, furious or calm; it no longer mattered. DANSVILLE
She showed her true colours next time when thrashing a subsequent winner by six lengths. The Sun
Too busy thrashing about in throes of existential malaise to so much as look at your Publishing Questions, so please feel free to keep sending. Archive 2009-09-01
I make 30 exposures, my flashguns lighting up the fray, a turmoil of thrashing tails and boiling sand.
The average wishy-washy middle-class liberal like myself finds herself thrashing desperately between her worthy political world view of them as victims and sheer annoyance at their failure to seize their chances.
They are perfectly ugly, perfectly cute, mini-dinosaurs, from their scaly heads to the tips of their thrashing tails.
The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes.
Whether she believed me, God knows, but she demanded particulars of a most intimate nature, inviting comparison between the Silk One and herself, and that inevitably led to another glorious thrashing-match which restored her amour-propre and left me in what I once heard a French naval officer describe as a condition of swoon. Watershed
Through the night she was panting and thrashing in her sleep, sometimes screaming out.
After the first operation he wouldn't come round and kept thrashing around which is when they found the second blood clot.
The novice may produce a great deal of power, but because they are relatively unskilful, the power output is misdirected with lots of thrashing about but slow forward velocity.
Jaran spasmed and bucked, screaming resistance, thrashing out for survival. Together « A Fly in Amber
If you speak to your mother like that again, you'll get a thrashing .
In each test, we compared simulations guided by the wriggling algorithm to ones guided by a standard thrashing algorithm in which the dihedral angles are varied independently.
Convulsions took him over and he was thrashing, shaking, screaming, but he didn't know it.
Once they had finished thrashing me, they tied me up again, but this time I managed to keep my ankles and wrists slightly apart.
The pointless violence and vulgarity, however, that ends his stories smacks of an author thrashing around for an ending.
The event, in which competitors show their enthusiasm for rock music by strumming, thrashing, soloing and generally cutting loose on an imaginary electric guitar, has attracted competitors from around the world.
It is a further example of the way Capello is thrashing around in the dark. The Sun
Long-term tests provide an extended look at a winning engine, a year's worth of thrashing that helps assure Best Engines judges haven't been buffaloed by a slick beauty cover and handsome output figures.
He borrowed from every one of the pupils -- I don't know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine -- and even from old Nosey's groom, -- pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), -- even from the doctor's groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action. The Newcomes
Surely not ... She ran upstairs again, heedless of the dolphin thrashing wetly on the upper landing.
I told him to buy some aloe vera and not to talk to strange men unless he wanted a sound thrashing.
I saw them open for Sonic Youth in 1988 at San Francisco's Fillmore, and was so eager for a good-time first-LP-style thrashing that I tried painfully hard to overlook the big hair, the power ballads and the exceptionally mediocre songs.
The system is thrashing again!
On the sea the thrashing hills of green water suggested a kind of immensity and terror, but not the immensity of the poet's heart. The Titan
They are going to weather the corn in the thrashing field.
Having learned to play guitar at roughly the same time Hannah, 26, taught Colette, 28, when they were living with their parents at home in Bristol, they first formed a squawky, thrashing punk band named Vulgarians in 2007. 2:54: the sisters heading to Doom Rock Central
Beth was feverish and fitful, tossing about beneath the sheets, her head thrashing from side to side, muttering inaudibly from time to time.
If you speak to your mother like that again, you'll get a thrashing .
Three steel producers listed on the main board reaped a golden harvest last year with their results thrashing market forecasts.
The result was a sound thrashing in seven of the eight games.
A whale was thrashing the water with its tail.
It's not in the script but an accidentprone stormtrooper thrashing around on the ice is a surreal sight. The Sun
All along the line, huge hairy forms poised for seconds on the brink, great arms thrashing, only to waver and plunge downwards, pierced by a dozen assegais. The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
He was the one who led the other squires in their jeering taunts that had resulted in Rheyce's own sound thrashing.
The bird cried out, thrashing its wings.
He grabbed hold of the net and prepared himself for when the giant eel came thrashing into sight.
The hiring and unhiring of new employees was like an underhand rag-toss into the cyclone that was thrashing around just under his unwatchful eye.
Kicking and thrashing, Jennifer desperately struggled to break free.
If this spectral company becomes too much for me I must loudly command them, even shout at them, "begone," and if that does no good I must wish for a whip - which forthwith appears - and give them a sound thrashing. The Bride of Dreams
A lack of inside toughness was exposed in a 26-point thrashing by the Blazers last week.
In international football Germany prepare for Euro 2004 with an embarrassing 5-1 thrashing by Romania.
We got what we deserved, a good thrashing. Times, Sunday Times
The school deserves praise for its initiative, and it's a far better means of improving behaviour than thrashing unruly children with the tawse.
a sound thrashing
One hundred metres above the drifts, with the broken connection thrashing over our heads, we ask the drillmaster how he and his team had fared during the reforms.
The victory was a welcome relief for the Rhinos who suffered a 56-10 thrashing at the hands of St Helens last week.
The faceless presence, thrashing and twisting like a hooked shark, was drawn to its doom.
I was starting to do a caesarean section on a really stroppy cow who was kicking and thrashing about all over the place.
They have been boosted by three wins in their last four games, notably the 4-1 thrashing of fellow strugglers Ipswich.
This struggle finally reached the point at which cowhiding, cane thrashing and fisticuffs in the Capitol itself occurred among the candidates, and the jobbery became so openly vile and scandalous, that even a Democratic Legislature concluded it best to temporarily eliminate the jobbery feature of it, and this was done for two years of the Democratic adminisiration. People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898.
Sources claim they are still thrashing out the details of the announcement. The Sun
The waiters are supposed to work quietly during performances but this was a hungry bunch of trenchermen who made a racket when they ate, gorging on sirloins, barbecued ribs, lobster tails, spaghetti and chicken livers, and more or less thrashing their way through a Mister Kelly specialty, the green goddess salad. Underworld
AUSTRALIA are one defeat away from an embarrassing place in history after another thrashing. The Sun
His government, which has been under constant pressure from some corporate circles to beef up its industrial laws, has been thrashing around for ways to push its agenda forward.
But beneath it all you sense the competitiveness of an Olympian thrashing away. Times, Sunday Times
Then she started thrashing him about the head and shoulders.
These records refer to the qafilabashi's generalized interference in the darogha's activities by "acting as if the whole place (Jamrud) belonged to him (the qafilabashi)," the qafilabashi causing a night time commotion at Jamrud when the darogha was registering some 700 to 800 camels for the next day's travel, the qafilabashi verbally assaulting Afghan nomads whom he claimed refused to carry Durrani government stores, and his "thrashing the kuchis, imposing double fines and seizing their camels. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Beverly Jameson the coordinator of South Yorkshires ` Black Police Association said When you saw the whole footage thing young lady is thrashing about violently and in ganger of hurting both herself and the officers trying to restrain her. I`m not a racist but......
Her thrashing solo builds into a tantrum, fists and feet thumping the floor, only for her colleagues to glide across the stage like the coolest of cats. Times, Sunday Times
By the men's own description, the shark suffered horribly, struggling for hours, being gaffed again and again, until he was finally dragged on board, thrashing for air.
Seeing Chris thrashing around his drum kit made Steven smile and the infectious smile spread to Donnie.
On inquiring how he came to get such a tremendous thrashing, it turned out that these Basutus have a custom of sending young men of a certain age [+] out in couples, each armed with a good "sjambok" (a whip cut from the hide of a sea-cow), to thrash one another till one gives in, and that it was in one of these encounters that the intelligent Scowl got so lacerated; but, as he remarked with a grin, "_My_ back is nothing, the chiefs should see that of the other boy. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Where in the Rights of Man would you find anything about thrashing cheeky baboons or debagging nosey wildlife photographers? The japing ape
He borrowed from every one of the pupils — I don’t know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine — and even from old Nosey’s groom, — pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), — even from the doctor’s groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action. The Newcomes
Favourites Den Bosch from the Netherlands retained the championship with a 8-2 thrashing of Ukrainian side Kolos Borispol.
He came up beyond the breaker, and there she was, her golden hair streaming, thrashing away out to sea, her arms flailing. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Pine Sage watches Kite thrashing about in the northwest wind.
They are going to weather the corn in the thrashing field.
The two sides have been thrashing out the fine details of his performance - and the all-important pay cheque. The Sun
The horse lay there, thrashing violently, the Cowgirl, unconscious, the rains still belting on them, the funnel taking down everything in its path to their right.
There every boat is crewed, the men armed with billhooks spear the fish and pull them thrashing from the water, as the Mattanza continues the sea turns red with blood.
Like it's better to hand out a sound thrashing than receive one. Times, Sunday Times
Randomly thrashing, the serrated edge of the hunter's knife cut a clean gash into the side of the beast's neck, letting loose a clean stream of crimson.
At half after five I went below to set the cabin table, but I hardly knew what I did, for my eyes and my brain were filled with the vision of a man, white-faced and trembling, comically like a bug, clinging to the thrashing gaff. Chapter 6
We instead reared up on our hind legs like a wounded animal and began thrashing about, enraged and unhinged, stoking bloodlust and fear.
It was five on the day, it could have been more, it was a good thrashing. The Sun
He followed up his win over top seed Juan Carlos Ferrero in the last round with a 6-2 6-1 thrashing of Arazi.
Can the New Zealand bowlers fight back after their thrashing at Christchurch?
I was never a coward, and cared for a thrashing as little as any boy, but one cannot make a stand against the acerbities of three hundred tyrants without a moral courage of which at that time I possessed none. An Autobiography
Yeah, my wife is a teacher, so I'm extra biased, but that rubbish apophthegm has always engendered a desire in me to give its adherents a thrashing with a buggy whip. From the keyboard of patton oswalt
So it seems to me he should be out there, front and center, especially at time when the administration has been sort of thrashing around for a spokesman to put out there to talk about the domestic threat.
The Government keeps thrashing around for that magic bullet, desperate to eliminate this crisis once and for all.
And his thrashing of the first six stillborn proposals is right, but late.
It's not in the script but an accidentprone stormtrooper thrashing around on the ice is a surreal sight. The Sun
He got a sound thrashing once his father found out.
A series of tableaux powerfully suggest the story's underlying violence: Nancy's death blow freezes mid-air, and Oliver's sound thrashings are hidden from view (but not from sound) in a wooden box.
The multi-billion-pound business had already taken a severe thrashing last year, as the outside world began to shrink away from growing violence.
He came up beyond the breaker, and there she was, her golden hair streaming, thrashing away out to sea, her arms flailing. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Spartak served notice early with a 4-1 thrashing of Arsenal.
Those who feel they have something they need to say are usually the ones most deserving of a good thrashing when the results are posted on the gatefold sleeve.
Reposed possessed girl flails up to begin violently thrashing front to back side to side to swirl & contortatop the bed. Boing Boing
It says something about our culture that the biggest film released during our biggest celebration of love is a story about one person mercilessly thrashing another. Times, Sunday Times
In barbel bites, one or both fish grips the barbels of the other for 15 to 20 seconds while thrashing about, whereas in flank bites, one fish quickly turns its head and bites the flanks of the other, holding on for several minutes.
The first offenders were given a sound thrashing by the security guards.
Cracknell is alluding to the shockwaves sent out by the pair's thrashing in Milan.
But, inexorably, he reeled it in, thrashing and squirming.
The creature roared in agony, thrashing about and spewing gouts of blood, until it lay quivering in a pool of its own gore.
They are going to weather the corn in the thrashing field.
Her lawyers have been ruthless in thrashing out a divorce settlement.
Cricket attendances are in decline and the sport is thrashing around desperately for a solution.
He would try and clear his mind by swimming laps in the pool, but he began swimming with all his anger and resembled nothing more than a shark thrashing about.
Caley Thistle came into the match on thumping good form after thrashing Raith Rovers, but have the knack of yo-yoing from spectacular results to disappointment.
In 1956, it was called getting a thrashing, or a hiding - or just ‘getting it’.
He had better or Portugal will be packing their cases after their 4-0 thrashing in game one. The Sun
Rod, in your increasingly muddle-headed thrashing about, you're becoming like some latter-day Dorothy Parker without the fag-holder. smog Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Shots were kicking up the dust all about us, a horse screamed and went down, thrashing-by George, that had been a regular volley, at least thirty rifles together, which you don't expect from savages; across the river a perfect mob of them was closing on their ford, halting to bring up their pieces and bows for another fusilade, a scarlet-clad figure ahead of them, arms raised, to give the word. Isabelle
If you speak to your mother like that again, you'll get a thrashing .
It's a guitar thrashing, cymbal crashing, feedback climaxing belter!
I wasn't thrashing and foaming and squawking like the others.
You've graduated from the Famous Five and Roald Dahl, and you are thrashing around for something that reflects your interests.
The novice may produce a great deal of power, but because they are relatively unskilful, the power output is misdirected with lots of thrashing about but slow forward velocity.
Half of the time, he was swinging from the headgate handle, all 160 pounds of him, as Whitey clung to the thrashing cow's head like a bulldogger, trying to check her teeth. Craig Daily Press stories
This is why you get all this thrashing about in the press and why we are drenched in the babble of the lickspittles and tintookies around them.
A free-swimming roundworm thus looks rather like it is thrashing about aimlessly.
Young For Eternity follows in a similar vein, crashing thrashing guitars and has us bouncing around the room looking for the nearest tennis racket, or failing that a decent sized mosh pit.
Meanwhile Chelsea have transformed themselves from the one-nil kings to thrashing teams like the Arsenal of old.
The drum, also called redfish or spottail bass, is already thrashing around controversy over catch limits. Stories: Local News
Britain's tour ended with a 7-2 thrashing by Argentina.
New York Racing Association assistant starter Fred Lewis pulled a colleague from underneath a thrashing horse who had flipped in a starting stall at Saratoga Race Course.

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