How to Use shellacking in a Sentence

shellacking

noun

• They took a shellacking in yesterday's game.
• This was the type of shellacking that won’t require film study.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• The Eagles were 9-1 and coming off a shellacking of the Cowboys.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 May 2018
• Last May, the Spurs bounced back from a 27-point shellacking against Houston by winning four of the next five games.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2018
• Tennessee fans had two weeks to stew about that shellacking and Jones had two weeks to make changes.
  — Chris Foster, latimes.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Younger workers should be thrilled that bonds got a shellacking.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The final score — a 74-23 shellacking — might have been even uglier than the box score suggests.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2022
• But with its final piece of the puzzle available, the Trojans put all the pieces together in a 95-68 shellacking of the Huskies.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2021
• Lamb’s career night was the only good thing to come out of Wednesday’s shellacking.
  — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 20 Dec. 2017
• Warm the ham, covered, on low or medium heat, then increase to high heat to crisp the surface with a shellacking of sweet, spiced glaze.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 23 Nov. 2021
• But the Dodgers, not looking like a club that touched down after 4 a.m., kept coming and coming on their way to a 16-2 shellacking.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• The shellacking came as the Bulls were in the midst of a tailspin, and Milwaukee was without Khris Middleton.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2022
• But maybe the hardest hit of the night was safety Donovan Wilson’s shellacking of Jones on a blitz early in the 3rd quarter.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022
• Meanwhile, Mets starter Seth Lugo was coming off his worst start of the year, an eight-run shellacking in three innings by the Cubs.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• To be fair, however, those outings sandwiched a three-inning, nine-run shellacking at the hands of the Blue Jays.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 29 May 2017
• He’s now being dragged in front of the City Commission to prolong the public shellacking.
  — Ana Navarro, miamiherald, 23 Apr. 2018
• They were dealt an 8-1 shellacking by the Capitals on April 11, the parting gift to their most recent five-in-seven stretch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• Outside of an eight-run shellacking at the hands of Washington, Foltynewicz has been one of the Braves best and most consistent starters this season.
  — SI.com, 31 July 2017
• When Jamal Murray banked in a 26-footer to end the first quarter, the Heat looked headed toward a shellacking.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• Thomas was shut down for the remainder of the playoffs, following a Game 2 shellacking, because of the hip ailment.
  — Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• This episode of What’s Ahead examines whether the crypto world is in for a similar shellacking.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• But here on the eve of the election there’s still the remote possibility that the election might not be a complete shellacking.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• From the pregame party to the postgame rowdy, 49ers fans squeezed every gold nugget of happiness from Sunday’s shellacking of the Green Bay Packers.
  — Al Saracevic, SFChronicle.com, 20 Jan. 2020
• Hours before the shellacking, manager David Ross remarked that the 35-year-old right-hander is in a unique position over the next few weeks.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Kluber took a rare shellacking in the same game, allowing six runs in only 2 2/3 innings.
  — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2017
• They were needed simply to get through a 16-0 shellacking at the hands of the Minnesota Twins, who became the first team in history to homer in each of the first seven innings of a game.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Minnesota had come to town after enduring a 9-0 shellacking at the hands of the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night.
  — Billy Heyen, cleveland.com, 24 June 2017
• In what could properly be described as a shellacking, Kemp came out on top of former Sen. David Perdue.
  — Averi Harper, ABC News, 25 May 2022
• Instead of the traditional shellacking, Democrats gained a seat in the Senate and only narrowly lost the House.
  — John Avlon, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
• The shellacking against Cathedral Catholic was the most lopsided defeat in the storied program’s 75-year history.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024