Sentence examples for a trounced from inspiring English sources

Light on sex, gags and drug-use, the novel charts the tortured progress of a trounced English professor in Missouri during the first half of the 20th century.

It hasn't been City's finest season but their performance against a trounced QPR might have been their finest hour.

As in a mauling, a thrashing, a romp, a trouncing.

The game turned, almost immediately, into a trouncing.

It just took a trouncing from the Kings to really make everyone realize it.

Defying many predictions, the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, did not receive a trouncing of the kind that Nicolas Sarkozy had suffered just a week earlier.

But another camp has been increasingly vocal that bringing down the government would be irresponsible and could lead to a trouncing at the polls.

It is a trouncing of such proportion that it all but rendered redundant their own second innings, with Joe Root's momentous 180.

Assad, took a trouncing as a former prime minister, the billionaire builder Rafik Hariri, swept to an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections.

Newcastle announced themselves as A-League finals contenders in becoming the third team this weekend to notch four goals in a trouncing of a rudderless Brisbane.

It started as a terrible week for Nick Clegg, with a trouncing from the electorate and an attack on his political life by an ally of Vince Cable.