lashing

IPA: ɫˈæʃɪŋ

noun

  • Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
  • The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
  • As lashings: lots.
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Examples of "lashing" in Sentences

  • He was painfully shy and found his expression in lashing out at people.
  • Perhaps Rahm is conflating these critiques from the left in lashing out at Krguman.
  • They did another good job of misdirecting us, making it seem like the killer was interested in lashing out against his coworkers when it was something else altogether.
  • After a Saturday morning of rain lashing down, the village draws a collective sigh of relief as blue skies start to dominate the western horizons, and the perfect English summer afternoon smiles on our annual fete.
  • The Senate tongue lashing is cute, but if the head of Goldman Sachs who approved the Sh*#ty deals, and robbed so many hardworking Americans, both of their savings and now of their tax dollars does not get at least 10 years in a max security prison.
  • When Kyrgyzstan's authoritarian president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was overthrown in April, U.S. officials who rushed to Bishkek to show support for his successor received a tongue-lashing from the new Kyrgyz government, which claimed that opaque jet fuel deals had enriched the deposed regime.
  • Devils, or pillars of sand, vertical and inclined, measuring a thousand feet high, rush over the plain lashing the sand at their base like a sea surging under a furious whirlwind; shearing the grass clean away from the roots, tearing up trees, which are whirled like leaves and sticks in air and sweeping away tents and houses as if they were bits of paper.

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