Sentence examples for drub from inspiring English sources
verb
To beat (someone or something) with a stick
England's 30 Oscars for best actress and best actor – 15 for each – drub Germany's total of three.
But when Scott plunges into the existential void, choosing to shrink to the subatomic level — a maneuver that may cost him his life — Reed devises a phantasmagorical visual correlate for that heroic leap, a repertory of images that suggest inner realms of infinitesimal adventure far more thrilling than the extravagantly large-scale ones that usually drub viewers into submission.
After two years away, Woods will be trying to remember what it was like to get to the finals and drub Cink, 8-and-7, in 2008, which seems like a long time ago.
There was the pop and drub of finger drums in the subway at Columbus Circle, their rhythms rising competitively as an express rocked into the station.
A quick word, too, for Catalan Dragons in defying the absence of several key men to drub London Broncos, and for Huddersfield in keeping pace near the top of the table by overpowering Bradford Bulls.
As England laboured past Austria, 3,808 FC United fans saw the club drub Daisy Hill 6-0 and go six points clear atop North West Counties Two.
As it turned out the poll underestimated the drubbing the party would receive.
The SDLP is still licking the wounds of its general election drubbing by Sinn Fein and, with the Good Friday process still mired in dispute over IRA disarmament and police reform, all the centrist parties are under remorseless pressure from hardliners.
Alastair Cook has conceded that inquests into England's Ashes drubbing are inevitable but is convinced that he and Andy Flower remain the best partnership to lead the team for the rest of the series and beyond.
Instead the EU should introduce an Obama-style fiscal stimulus plan across Europe to help end the eurozone crisis, said Martin, whose Fianna Fáil party has recovered in the opinion polls from its historical electoral drubbing in 2011.
First Southampton put eight past Sunderland; now a week later and Bournemouth have banged in eight without reply, with beleaguered Birmingham on the receiving end of a drubbing.
