Sentence examples for flogging at from inspiring English sources

James Whale, sacked from TalkSport, for endorsing Boris Johnson's London mayoral campaign rather too heartily, has taken a job at the shopping channel Bid TV, and the item he is flogging at the moment is a set of silk sheets and pillow cases that could have come out of Tony Blackburn's bedroom, circa 1975.

Apparently, Liam is gagging to record some new material, cos all this Best Of material that they're flogging at the minute is DOING HIS NUT! "I want to get this (album) out of the fucking way, it's doing my head in.

A severe flogging at the age of 12 had given him his stammer.

Cook had them flogged at first, but settled shortly for a less direct approach.

"What, I wonder, would the bill be if all who had been flogged at Eton obtained full compensation?" he asked.

And there's a coy early reference to new rave from Righton when it might be better to forget the matter entirely: its only legacy is the sheer volume of brightly coloured sportswear Topshop managed to flog at the time.

All of the above seem to me to be the contemporary equivalents of those drippy handcrafted objects (often in earthy colors with spurious beading) that the raffia mafia flogged at 1980s craft fairs.

Performing in a damp cellar and living off the takings from the handful of CDs they could flog at the end of each gig, they were slowly starving until spotted by the likes of David O'Doherty, Jimmy Carr and Rob Brydon.

It is planning to sell a slice of its profitable finance business, GMAC, and has flogged at a loss its stake in a Japanese carmaker, Fuji's Subaru, to Toyota the nemesis that looks set soon to snatch its crown as the world's biggest car firm.

Readers must have been startled indeed to find dozens of accounts, ostensibly submitted by subscribers, describing the delicious pleasures of having a maid lace them into tight corsets, or expressing how grateful they were to have been flogged at boarding school, with details of how this well-deserved punishment was carried out.

Somewhere between the stop frame (or bullet-time, or bullet-frame, or whatever camera technique they use) and the quasi-philosophical lyrics about feeling out of place in one's lifetime, you'll spot what they're trying to flog at one minute and three seconds.