Sentence examples for a flogging from inspiring English sources

That made it inevitable, he said, that they were going to be on the receiving end of a flogging.

The poor law of 1576 empowered magistrates to make maintenance orders for support of children, and to have mothers and "reputed" fathers punished, usually with a flogging.

Women who flout the Islamic dress-code, which still requires their heads (and the rest of their bodies) to be covered in public, are more rarely threatened with a flogging.

One of them left a sickening account of watching a flogging on the wooden block ('six cuts that sounded like the splashings of so many buckets of water') comparable in brutality only to a public execution.

So David offers to kill the lion to save his father from a flogging.

Soldiers slap Christopher hard across the face and spare him a flogging.

IF YOU RECEIVE a call from a broker flogging a new closed-end, a good rule of thumb is to politely decline.

"The spectacle of a regime flogging a poet to punish a handshake is a grave affront.

Telling a commentator flogging a product online to disclose commercial ties does not constitute a challenge to free speech.

"Years ago, I watched a man flogging a horse, and finally the horse just lay down and died," he told me.

Ultimately, a current-account deficit represents a country flogging its assets or incurring debts to finance spending.