How to Use flog in a Sentence

flog

verb

• The sailors were flogged for attempting a mutiny.
• Hard to make that case -- the media has not been guilty of flogging quack cures.
  — The Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2020
• And then flogs her with his belt and forces a horrified June to watch.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2018
• Nothing like a good social media beef to flog the brand.
  — Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Good hustle for those who are flogging their spares and that, but p h e w.
  — SI.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• Merchants would dress in old-timey garb and flog their wares on the sidewalks, and there was music and food.
  — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2018
• But, before flogging the soon-to-be-dead plot point, the muscle leers and the sound of cracking knuckles echoes off the walls.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
• Like any good author, one of my duties is taking to the airwaves to flog my book.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2010
• Uncle Usama would flog both Mother and me in front of the whole compound.
  — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• He was flogged with wires, part of the frequent beatings inflicted by guards against all the detainees, the AP found.
  — Maggie Michael, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Garuda is not the only Asian airline to flog its food to the land-lubbing public.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
• He was flogged with wires, part of the frequent beatings inflicted by guards against all the detainees.
  — Maggie Michael, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• The novel is an exposé of the Navy’s disciplinary practices and use of flogging.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• Still, recruiters have flogged those benefits for years, with little to show for it.
  — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
• Mr Befekadu was flogged across his bare feet with an electric cable.
  — The Economist, 27 Jan. 2018
• That way, the app can simply scoop up data and flog it on with minimal effort.
  — Sean Keach, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
• He had been detained and flogged three times while the Islamic State ruled his city: Either his beard was too short or his pants weren’t short enough.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• That is what is known (if I may be permitted to flog a tired phrase one last time) as an inconvenient truth.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2011
• By the mid-1960s similar gizmos were being flogged by door-to-door salesmen.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• The idea is not to flog yourself for mistakes but to acknowledge them with future improvements in mind.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• Once, Thomas brutally flogged his son for refusing to work.
  — Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• The fear now is that, since the pieces are too recognisable to be sold intact, the robbers will break out the diamonds and sapphires to flog them separately.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• It probably only reflects the foolish, stale snark of some poor intern tasked in finding a way to flog the same donors for another $5.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 6 July 2017
• The arrests come after two men were sentenced to be publicly flogged in the conservative Aceh Province.
  — Tara John, Time, 22 May 2017
• As this episode shows, companies will flog even the most dubious published data to boost their market share.
  — Adam Marcus, STAT, 8 May 2018
• Facebook doesn’t deserve all of the flogging it’s getting, but welcome to the club of business political risks.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018
• Children were flogged so severely, sometimes receiving more than 100 lashes, that their shirts were stuck to their backs with blood.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Many of the poems Glück wrote in her early 20s flog her own obsessions with, and failures in, control and exactitude.
  — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Starbucks started flogging its pumpkin spice latte, the drink that started it all, in August.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
• In Khartoum his Islamist government would flog women for wearing trousers and kill protesters in the streets.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024