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Sentence Examples If you are in the business of flogging houses, it is in your financial interest to talk the market up. You really got a funny look on your face, when I was talking about my fantasy public flogging session on Benny. There was also a photograph of a dirty foot that some joker was flogging for two grand. The cat-o-nine-tails with its knitted thongs of whipcord was pickled in brine to stiffen it when there was an imminent flogging. Art and life have become merged by their geniuses, and that rare talent has been turned into sophisticated ways of flogging us even more stuff. She was last seen working as a merchant banker flogging pork belly futures to Mongolian sheepherders. An estate agent in March is flogging off ex Royal Observation Corps nuclear bunkers. A much better deterrent than flogging would be an efficient police service, coupled with the speedy administration of justice. They would cultivate a military bearing, trying to take a disciplinary flogging with manly indifference, and giving a smart salute after it. He may as well have clapped me in irons and commenced flogging in front of the herds of law-abiding legal visitors. One thing they had in abundance and were merrily flogging off was a strange collapsible bag-thing with a mesh top. The bare feet are beautiful, elegant and feminine but bring to mind the bastinado, the terrible flogging of the feet. Drawn from Melville's experiences in the navy, it compellingly condemned the practice of flogging, and may have influenced its outlawing. The area is known as the coral coast and you'll find numerous small shops in Alghero devoted to flogging coral jewellery. Hold a flogging brush at 90 degrees to the surface and firmly push the bristles into the wet wash. I then brushed on dark-blue oil glaze, and dragged a flogging brush through it to expose the underlying paint. All have enthusiastically pursued policies of privatization, flogging off public services to fat-cat entrepreneurs. It's just the kind of logic employed by mediaeval pardoners flogging pigs' bones as holy relics. So is it a company that builds and sells operating systems, or is its core business flogging sundry services and stuff to you? This sanction worked better in securing good behaviour than the threat of flogging. Show More Sentences Telewest is flogging its cable broadband service for less than the price of unmetered dial-up access in a bid to attract new punters. He had made serious errors of judgement, but he had also tried to improve naval gunnery, reform the promotion system, and limit flogging. This draconian legislation included provision for flogging, curfew, and internment. The owner of the domain name is flogging it off, presumedly with the intent of profiting from its rise to rapid notoreity. Why does it feel like a public flogging every time you have to speak in class? Lenders make serious bucks from flogging high-priced insurance policies to their cardholders. I'm not normally a violent person but I felt like flogging him with a full stocking. Nuts were tightened up with a flogging spanner, the first blow hit the striking plate fair and square. Are we about to sail? We are if the Blue Peter is on the masthead. Back to the ship, you jack-tars, unless you want a flogging. The former home of immigrants flogging salami and bratwurst is now suited to a different type of meat, the paparazzi. He handed it to one of the pirates in order to take the real whip he intended on flogging her with. Sage had screamed at every blow, but now hung unconscious from the triangle, while Cruttwell was taking his flogging in silence. For a flogging, three halberds would be bound in an upright triangle, with a fourth tied horizontally across at chest height. He fell into the trap of flogging the players at training and settling too early on his Test team. A range of dangerous initiation ceremonies: Some initiation rites involve dangerous practices, such as lengthy immersion in water, or flogging. The real shock came in 2002 in Birmingham, England's biggest city outside London, where tenants voted two to one against flogging off their houses. So the award must be for flogging off services to the private companies. But people also have a right to a fair trial and freedom from an undue flogging. The use of nettle stems as a revulsive for therapeutic flogging datea from Antiquité. It pictures a man holding a whip, and flogging himself with it. Show More Sentences Can you tell me whether you think you're flogging a dead horse at this point? Mr. Dennis Long: We're absolutely not flogging a dead horse, and let me just go backwards through what you said. I am surprised that the hon. member keeps flogging that dead horse with respect to the long arms registry. On the Agriculture Committee, we, too, are fed up with forever flogging a dead horse where this subject is concerned. Even the Prince of Wales, the Quacktitioner Royal himself, is flogging what appears to be a patent medicine. A mandrill has a better chance of flogging the Eiffel Tower to Bill Gates than I have of getting away with anything, ever. You can spend night after night without any wind, with a chop and flogging sails, says Marc. Why is the government still flogging this amoral deal that repudiates Canadian values? Let's hope Cable doesn't avoid it by flogging the state's remaining shares before Royal Mail's annual meeting, which is set for the summer. That at least is the message from the retired experimental physicist Leon Lederman, who is flogging his Nobel prize medal. Defendants have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms, some to flogging, and at least 16 have been sentenced to death. Let us therefore stop flogging this dead horse and deal with issues that are really important to Europe and its citizens. Regarding the practice of flogging in the schools and the prisons, he accepted Sir Nigel's view that public opinion was not enough of a standard. The Committee notes with interest that authorities are presently considering amendments to the Prison Act that would abolish flogging. Even young girls are not exceptions, and a nine-year-old girl is treated as an adult and punished by flogging, execution and even stoning. While gangstas expend their energy promoting fashion labels or flogging sneakers, even the grimiest rappers are positively buffed by Jamaican standards. Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber, with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them. But, in a major way, harping on the sins of Arafat and Abbas is like flogging a dead horse. According to some reports, the flogging of the new mother is to take place in less than two weeks. In a nation of couch potatoes, advertisers know the value of flogging their brands when the orchestra starts to gush. Show More Sentences Yes, long before Romeo Beckham was starring in ads for Burberry, we Sykes children were flogging schmutter for our parents. Until then, keep your head high and the flogging with a hardcover copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves to a minimum. Singapore still considers graffiti an offense punishable by flogging. Why not also revert to flogging, birching, amputation and so on. After the flogging, Mick becomes an imposing monster in his house, threatening his wife, and developing a severely unfatherly interest in his youngest daughter. I'm flogging off the precious things and owt that's not nailed down. They do, however, permit flogging in cases of utmost necessity, when it must be limited to four lashes which must not be such as to cause intense pain. The Conservatives are flogging a dead horse here, but no one is fooled. Laws do remain on the books in some countries, however, prescribing the public flogging or stoning of a woman because she has somehow transgressed a community or religious norm. Once again they are flogging a dead horse. And then: more trouble, in the shape of Paltrow's nemesis Blake Lively, proprietor of Goop's upstart rival in the world of websites flogging insufferably marketed, overpriced cobblers, Preserve. A particularly painful, though not so deadly, type of flogging was the bastinado, generally used in Asia, which involved blows delivered to the soles of the feet with a light rod, knotted cord, or lash. Reforms were also gradually introduced in the conditions for enlisted men with the abolition of military flogging in 1879, amongst others. There is certainly the need to reward performance and offer incentives for success, but flogging a willing horse is not the way to do it. While securities firms were merrily flogging new share issues left, right and centre, some analysts were lauding shares in public and dissing them in private. A father and son team were flogging fresh anchovies from an icy pushcart. Muslims are not allowed to consume alcohol in Qatar and Muslims caught consuming alcohol are liable to flogging or deportation. There should be clear evidence of government interest and willingness to consider favourably the results of such a project before the ULCC wastes time, resources and energy flogging a dead horse. Minimal flogging and careful handling can greatly extend the life of a Kevlar sail. According to information before the Committee, in Aceh, punishments for certain offences include flogging, or 'caning' carried out in public by persons who wear hoods. Show More Sentences I would take them out behind the international woodshed and give them an intellectual and rhetorical flogging, the like of which they would never forget. The seller, only named as John, put the quirky offer on DoneDeal in the hope of flogging the four jam jars to fed-up holiday makers. This is where we get kind of panicky, because the Ontario government has been flogging this report which shows that insecticide use has dropped in Ontario during the past 15 years. Until the end of the 18th century, talion provided the rationale for such corporal punishments as flogging, branding, mutilation, the stock, and the pillory. No wind, seas like a millpond and the sails flogging every which way I alternated between little siestas and checks of Gitana Eighty, trying to make headway as best I could. It's an easy story to forget, if you're a non-runner, and your vision of marathon-running involves skeletal obsessives flogging themselves joylessly to the brink of collapse in pursuit of an arbitrary, solipsistic goal. Bootleggers are buying cheap, special-offer stocks of the French version of Diet Coke and flogging them in Scotland for a fat profit. Even with 344,000 households in London awaiting a council home, the mayor is cheering on their flogging off and replacement with unaffordable luxury flats. What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet. Officials from the Ministry of Justice told the Special Rapporteur that the Bishop had been condemned for seduction which, according to the Criminal Act of 1991, is punishable by flogging. It's flogging a dead horse, with the results I get from them. Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice Anglais. Punishment included forfeiture of pay and allowances, flogging, branding, keelhauling, confinement, solitary confinement with bread and water, and the death penalty. In consequence, Rome punished her and her daughters by flogging and rape. The king's contention was that flogging, fines, degradation, and excommunication, beyond which the spiritual courts could not go, were insufficient as punishment. Lashes at the grating, keelhauling, flogging around the fleet and so on. Although Bede's account makes Laurence's miraculous flogging the trigger for Eadbald's baptism, this completely ignores the political and diplomatic problems facing Eadbald. Cobbett was found guilty of treasonous libel on 15 June 1810 after objecting in The Register to the flogging at Ely of local militiamen by Hanoverians. Southey, who had himself been expelled from the Westminster School for opposing flogging, was taken with Shelley and predicted great things for him as a poet. Examples from Classical Literature The boys used to go through the streets at the Lupercalia, flogging themselves. The boys used to go through the streets, at the Lupercalia flogging themselves. Such an expression it must have worn when he was flogging the White Russian peasants. The triangles were of the usual pattern, and the flogging was on the buttock. First you must have a flogging for having told an untruth, then we will see to the rest. But the most delightful of all Boer customs was the custom of flogging by pipes. He pulled down the boy's shirt, and saw that his back was covered with weals, the effect of the cruel flogging he had received. Taxation, like flogging in the army, never comes on the right part of the back. He seemed to be in a desperate hurry, as he was flogging his tired and mud-bespattered animal unmercifully with his sjambok. When their father came home and found what had happened, he seized the horse-whip and gave both the boys a terrible flogging. A little flogging for man and woman too would be the best way of preventing such things. Fortunately for him the poor fellow died as a consequence of the flogging. I dont value a flogging a straw, nor do I regard a spatting a hair. I am doing my best, and it's no good flogging a willing horse. Clay, but there's a fellow in your brick-yard flogging two horses to death. They are flogging the horses, and galloping as hard as they can. I verily believe that my ill looks alone saved me a flogging. As I am told that it was not the first time, and indeed that every day you are to be seen flogging and spurring your horse, I wish to come to the bottom of the matter. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of flogging? Words that rhyme with flogging What is the plural of flogging? What is the adjective for flogging? What is the noun for flogging? Translations for flogging Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words floggers flogger flogged flog floes floe floggings flogs flokati flokatis flood Flood 8-letter Words Starting With f fl flo flog flogg floggi floggin