How to Use flagellation in a Sentence

flagellation

noun

• The stand-up’s job is one of public self-flagellation in service of the greater good.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2022
• The question isn’t about self-flagellation, but about what is whiteness, and what has this done to me?
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Maybe your vestal will become obsessed with self-flagellation as a means to feel safe and pure.
  — Jake Muncy, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2016
• Rock still finds room for the funny during his self-flagellation.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
• Alas, the last few years have brought with them a surfeit of self-flagellation that the more grounded among the citizenry would do well to resist.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 July 2022
• Hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon are marking the day with rallies, prayers and self-flagellation.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• No one can blame Giuliani for engaging in a bit of self-flagellation to save her business.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
• The issues the markets have with the Fed may have less to do with an eye toward self-flagellation and more to do with a growing mistrust of the institution.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 18 May 2022
• Sale used his postgame interview as a study in self-flagellation.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
• Why did Harris decide to engage in such self-flagellation in the first instance?
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Spend your mornings in prayer and self-flagellation; afternoons in thanks for not being born among the tribals.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• What do those choices say to you about their levels of self-flagellation and also change going forward?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
• Charlotte, a woman once crippled by her own politeness to the point of self-flagellation, was de-inviting Stanford from lunch.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2022
• The past year has produced a remarkable amount of hand-wringing and self-flagellation among middle-class white people, not all of it productive.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 8 June 2021
• And as the actor portrayed Christ's flagellation, one of the film's extras accidentally whipped his back.
  — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020
• At a spiritual retreat organized by the school, the boys have fun acting out a flagellation depicted in a painting in one of the bedrooms.
  — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Does the Whitney, or Kanders, think this bit of self-flagellation will do anything except make the museum’s leadership look like fools?
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 June 2019
• Hence his self-flagellation on the Armchair Expert podcast.
  — Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review, 18 Apr. 2021
• With season 1 ending with both Issa and Molly unwillingly alone, would there be more self-flagellation on the menu?
  — Maiysha Kai, The Root, 21 July 2017
• But what is the point of all this flagellation, of self and others, if meanwhile the structures that enable wrongdoing continue to creak and loom, doing business as usual?
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• But the Apu wars preceded Azaria’s latest self-flagellation.
  — Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review, 18 Apr. 2021
• This holier-than-thou desire that everyone else must engage in some kind of 24-hour festival of grief is nothing more than self-flagellation.
  — The Tylt, AL.com, 25 May 2017
• Golf is a high form of self-flagellation appreciated only by those who attempt it.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2018
• Usually, this pathway outside Parx Casino is reserved for self-flagellation, a private lament at the last hundred lost.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2017
• Their participation in the flagellation of Cathay is a reminder that their ultimate loyalty is to the party.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Adam, who has the power of direct address to the camera, has a lot of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag in him, in that his self-flagellation and neuroses build an aura of constant tension even if his intentions are rarely malignant.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2022
• There’s only so much use in self-flagellation, however.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• The collective self-flagellation was, in its own way, as remarkable as the earlier blindness, both of which tell a story about the enduring power of denial in Germany.
  — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• What appeared at first like an admirable dedication to his job reveals itself as more akin to self-flagellation or self-punishment.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
• What had been, for the Greeks, a desire for ostentatious success became in medieval Europe a struggle to control the self through prayer and flagellation—to battle inner badness and become pure.
  — Gal Beckerman, The New Republic, 7 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024