Sentence examples for a caning for from inspiring English sources

In preparing today's profoundly respectful column, I acted with the due-est of care by calling the senior minister in Singapore, an island I cannot visit because I like to chew gum and don't want to risk a caning for it.

She had used a cane for some time, for what she had thought was rheumatoid arthritis.

When Bull found himself too dizzy to walk without assistance, one Confederate whittled a cane for him from a branch.

He meted out punishments: lashings with a cane for the men and confinement in a tin-shed "jail" for women.

I needed a cane for my back pain, probably from sitting hunched over a typewriter or computer for the last half-century.

When my father returned home, he had a cane for the first time in his robust life, and seemed much weaker.

Mr. Carter, looking elated and using a cane for support, along with a few helpful hands, walked up the stairs to the stage almost on his own.

However, he was also using a cane for some reason, which suggests he was that day taking time off from real life.

A Nigerian has been given 80 lashes with a cane for drinking alcohol in public in northern Zamfara State in the first punishment meted out since the introduction of strict Muslim law there last month.

People talked about how, in his 90s, urged to use a cane for balance, he instead adopted it as a prop — waving it around, usually, to the dismay of his doctors and the delight of those who loved him.

Though it is unlikely that she will ever again be a model -- her walking is stiff at best and doctors say she will probably often need a cane for longer walks -- she said she was happy she found writing as a paying outlet that requires little mobility.