How To Use Whipping boy In A Sentence

  • The mechanic became the whipping boy for the pilot's error.
  • Australian tradition whereby leading bowler "outs" English batsman he intends to install as personal whipping boy usually captain, star man, or chief posho. The Ashes 2010 A-Z: baggy greens, doing a Harmy and lucky red hankies
  • With a new name adorning the number one position after almost every match, the Daredevils, who climbed to the coveted position after trampling over event's whipping boys Kolkata Knight Riders by nine wickets, would have to up the ante when they take on Sachin Tendulkar's army for the first time in the tournament. Times Now
  • The directors are clearly responsible for what happened, but they're sure to find a whipping boy lower down the company.
  • He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
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  • A lot of the flagellation pornography involved men whipping men or tutors whipping boys, and if you think about the position, it's all about the bottom and a whip, so there's a phallic aspect of it.
  • He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
  • Indeed, just about every club has a whipping boy treated to 'verbals' that would never have been heard a few years ago. Mirror.co.uk - Home
  • All the Republicans are asking is to end bank bailouts, of course you have to remember Obozo got a $1 million in campaign contributions from current libertard whipping boy, demon Goldman Sachs. New DNC ad accuses GOP of siding with Wall Street
  • The directors are clearly responsible for what happened, but they're sure to find a whipping boy lower down the company.
  • Everyone wrote the Potters off as top-flight whipping boys following their opening-day 3-1 defeat at Bolton, but they displayed immediate 'bouncebackability' by edging Aston Villa in a TEAMtalk Football News
  • Whipping Boy have just finished recording their debut album in Sun Studios, Dublin.
  • Connacht, so long the political, social and economic ‘whipping boy’ of this island of ours, are once more found dispensable.
  • He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
  • McGregor has become some sort of whipping boy lately for trendy reviewers, who seem to think he's some kind of disastrously awful actor that stinks up every project he's in. Hollywood Elsewhere
  • Using the media as a collective whipping boy for deeper societal ills is a simple cop-out. Some Thoughts On The Virginia Tech Massacre

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