How to Use thrash in a Sentence

thrash

1 of 2 verb

• The team thrashed them last week.
• He thrashed me with his belt.
• She thrashed around in her sleep.
• Something was thrashing wildly in the water.
• The video shows thrashing in the water and a pool of blood about 50 yards off the coast.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• Sweden beat them in the Tokyo Olympics, that first game in the Tokyo Olympics, thrashed them 3-0.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• Both bands have been around since the mid-’90s and thrash as hard as ever.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Sharks thrash about in the turbid water between us and the man.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• Was that like for you to be thrashed around or thrash yourself around in that way?
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 May 2022
• That’s like supreme Eighties thrash with the big breakdown in the middle.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
• The protesters thrashed on the floor, yelling their names and ID numbers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• The snake is already limp when the gator uses a wrestling-like move to flip and thrash it against a small piece of grass.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
• At times, multiple fish would thrash and quiver along the rocks.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
• In the clip, the shark thrashes as the group of rescuers work to move the animal back into the water.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• By the time the camera is rolling, the muscovy hen is thrashing the hawk and attempting to drown it.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Utes could make a point by thrashing a disappointing Texas team in the Alamo Bowl.
  — oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
• But yeah tons of doom and stoner metal and stuff like that, even thrash metal.
  — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• In her expert hands, the music soared and sang, throbbed and thrashed, all to enormous impact.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2020
• Your roof takes the brunt of any harsh weather: the beating sun, thrashing rain, winter snowstorms and the like.
  — Good Housekeeping, 25 Apr. 2023
• Gray waves rolled crashing toward the shore and thrashed against the wooden pier, slapping like bare hands against the flat rocks.
  — Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• Within seconds, the coral snake began thrashing around in an attempt to get rid of the wasp.
  — Ricky Pinela, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Finally, all the way at the bottom: a small thrashing mass of silvery salmon.
  — Author: Simon Denyer, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2019
• Managers in the three lower basin states are now gearing up to thrash out a new compact by 2026.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
• In the 1980s, thrash was among the most confrontational, underground sounds in rock.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Baher, veiled in a black burqa, thrashed back toward him through chest-high water.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the man was combative and thrashing his elbows about.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
• The wolf jumped into the water of Hallow Bay and grabbing the harbor seal’s tail, thrashing it around.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
• The Panthers have been getting thrashed on the ground, with a league-high 29 rushing touchdowns allowed.
  — Brian Rudd, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 26 Dec. 2019
• Blubber is not easily tearable, and even with their sharp teeth, sharks have to thrash from side to side to get a piece.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2021
• The music video, on the other hand, was less subtle: In it, Timberlake thrashes the home of a Spears lookalike and spies on her in the shower.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023

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thrash

2 of 2 noun

• The shark swam away with a thrash of its tail.
• The thrash of hardcore was still a few years down the pike.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• Roem has spent a decade as the lead singer of thrash band Cab Ride Home.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
• Her sound may be thrash-ready, but the lyrics are the tender words of a young woman who feels and thinks deeply.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
• Caggiano, who used to be with thrash metal band Anthrax, gets pumped by the crowds.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
• Judging from a live video clip, the band summons the fast fury thrash-fans expect.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2022
• Old-school thrash is much more drawn out and elaborate.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 8 Jan. 2018
• In the clip, the otter bites, thrashes, and claws at an occupied surfboard while the surfer tries to paddle away with the board.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Scott Ian and Frank Bello, members of the thrash metal band Anthrax.
  — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2023
• Midnight, from the Cleveland streets Harvey Pekar once roamed, is still the one-man black-thrash game to beat on this side of the Earth or anywhere else.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2022
• The morning sky like blue lacquer on porcelain, the breeze off the Lac, and mere feet away, the thrash of dozens of racers tearing through the water.
  — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• In that way, Megaforce became an important bridge to the mainstream for the thrash metal subgenre as a whole.
  — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2022
• Some — many — would say that Slayer is the greatest thrash-metal band ever.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 26 May 2018
• Riley Gale, who is best known as the lead singer of thrash metal band Power Trip, died Monday night at age 34.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Stack the two overdrives A to B to get some hard-hitting punk rock tones, or stack the fuzz on A to a high gain overdrive on B to get more of thrash metal sound.
  — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2018
• Speed metal and thrash came next and after that of course, death metal, which changed everything for me.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2017
• To compensate for the newfound torque and quell any three-cylinder thrash, the 1.5-liter gets hydraulic engine mounts.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 1 Nov. 2022
• Pantera fans are getting psyched for the upcoming reunion of the beloved thrash metal icons.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2022
• Dig in for thrash kabobs, metal mushroom tuna melt, and…hummus?
  — Bon Appétit, 31 Oct. 2022
• Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica in 1983 leading him to form his own thrash metal band, Megadeth.
  — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• While punctuating her stage-prowl with stomps and thrashes, that blue flame that always seems to be glowing in the back of her throat burned hot and steady.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• Next year, Alien Weaponry will take Māori thrash metal across the world and aim to release their first album in February 2018.
  — Sylvia Varnham O'Regan, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
• More local acts have yet to be booked for June 17, which will be headlined by thrash metal act Oblivion Zero.
  — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 29 Mar. 2018
• Ninety bands are on the agenda for Furnace Fest, which focuses on heavy rock, thrash, punk and metal.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2022
• At the same time, the label was nurturing another soon-to-be-huge thrash outfit, Anthrax.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2022
• That, of course, includes Megadeth, one of thrash metal's big four along with Anthrax, Slayer and Metallica.
  — cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Fans of thrash metal, folk rock, punk, and hill country blues will be able to find common ground this month in helping to fund support for people with cancer.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• Exodus, who are one of the bay-area thrash scenes earliest bands, just so happen to be at the forefront of this massive renaissance.
  — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• The Lally-Canty rhythm section offered a syncopated, lustily grooving backbone in contrast to the speed and thrash of punk up to that point.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Primus and Mastodon are both bands that come from the world of heavy metal but resist categorization: The former blends it with prog rock and funk; the latter skews toward thrash and hard core.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2018

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