Sentence examples for a whacking from inspiring English sources

Dido's father dies, leaving her a whacking great inheritance of £2,000 a year.

"We give the government a whacking, regularly, so it's not surprising if they want to give us a bit of a whacking.

You have just been hit by a whacking great levy on your cash.

"We have had a whacking great hangover after a debt-fuelled housing boom.

"It's a whacking big political gamble," said Andrew Marr, the BBC's chief political correspondent.

After all, we can watch a "whacking" on the show with connoisseur's glee.

Why not advertise your desperation by wearing a whacking great amulet round your neck.

His lovers grind at the mill; they give the wool a whacking; they make the nightingale sing.

He expressed anger toward the world, notably toward some of the empty seat cushions, which he gave a whacking.

When Davies quit a promising career to look after his sons, "it left a whacking great hole in my CV.

"It was 1987 and we were supposed to destroy Thatcherism and deliver a whacking Labour majority," he recalls.