How to Use lashing in a Sentence

lashing

noun

• They gave the sailor a lashing.
• She put lashings of butter on her muffin.
• At the end of the lashing, the two men were helped off the platform.
  — NBC News, 23 May 2017
• The planks were then attached to the frame with lashing.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• The cities and towns there were some of the first areas to receive a lashing from the storm.
  — Dan Glaun, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
• Finish the lashing by tying the tag end of the line to the tag end of your original knot.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2019
• Bend a few inches of the end of the bungee over and use the lashing cord to secure it tightly to the running cord.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2020
• Fay doesn’t hold back, giving the captain a tongue-lashing in front of the other cops.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• One tends to let the verbal tongue lashings go a little bit more than the other.
  — Mark Heim, AL.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• Flowers and plants will be displayed on racks hand made by lashings done by the Scouts.
  — Courant Community, 8 May 2018
• That is, until Thursday -- Halloween -- when gusts of wind and lashings of rain battered the falls, and the remains of the barge.
  — Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 2 Nov. 2019
• On the evening of Aug. 21, with the rain lashing, 15 villagers claimed to see holy apparitions on the side of the Catholic church, suddenly aglow.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• At 10 yards the young bull skids to a stop, trunk lashing and swinging, ears now flared forward in confused bluff.
  — Bob Brister, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
• Rolling eyes at an adult meant, at a minimum, a tongue lashing.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2022
• Tails between their legs, the team slinked from the meeting, smarting from Karthik's tongue lashing.
  — John Rex, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• Customers sweating over a lack of lashing points can breathe a sigh of relief.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2022
• Hayes isn't the only one to give Fox News' four-star general in the War on Christmas a good comedic lashing.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 25 Oct. 2017
• He was jailed and received 50 lashings and counted himself lucky to still have his head.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• The county took a hard lashing from onshore winds on Monday.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
• But Kyle has thoroughly sucked for the past four weeks and is overdue for a public lashing.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
• After a public lashing from just about everywhere, the NFL agreed in the summer of 2021 to end the practice.
  — Terence Moore, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Trump’s public lashing out against mail-in voting may come too late.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 26 June 2020
• They were forced to cover their bodies head to toe or risk public lashings.
  — Ghazi Balkiz and Angela Dewan, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• Sometimes weak cages collapse under a rope's lashing and form a CME.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
• In 2022, the pop star shaved her eyebrows on Instagram Live after her new bald look took a lashing from fans.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
• When a sailor threatened to report him as a smuggler, Arnold led a gang that inflicted a lashing in reprisal.
  — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• Plenty of black liner and lashings of eye-opening mascara finished the look.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2023
• In the fourth episode, Crozier orders the lashing of a seaman who kidnaps Lady Silence.
  — Asher Elbein, The Atlantic, 1 May 2018
• Eyes were finished off with lashings of her FetishEyes Mascara for extra drama.
  — Lauren Murdoch-Smith, Vogue, 24 June 2024
• Some women have burned their headscarves, an act that two months ago was punishable by lashing and a jail sentence but now is not that rare an act in Iranian cities.
  — Masih Alinejad, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024