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be lashed

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To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

  • We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. John Dryden

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It is Ms. Quinn's fate to be lashed forever for her turnaround on term limits.

Then Tyler received death threats, and Islamist leaders said she deserved to be lashed or even stoned to death.

If I'm going to be lashed, I might as well save my skin for more recent troubles in the world".

A Saudi woman has been sentenced to be lashed 10 times with a whip for defying the kingdom's prohibition on female drivers.

A Saudi woman sentenced to be lashed 10 times for defying the country's ban on female drivers has had her punishment overturned by the king.

An immature boy raped by an adult man would also be lashed 74 times according to the same law, if the court decided that he had "enjoyed" the experience.

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Mastodon's album "Leviathan," their head-banging take on "Moby-Dick," lets me imagine Ahab as a crazed guitar-shredder lashed to that great white whale, even as I am lashed to prostate cancer (though I don't plan on going down with the ship).

The report said the priests were lashed and shot by the troops.

Do you endure weeks of screaming while your child is lashed willy-nilly to his cot?

His legs are lashed to planks that extend upward to form an X.

These are lashed in the middle to make stars of six or eight points, sometimes more.

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