Sentence examples for flogging myself from inspiring English sources

I didn't start stressing or flogging myself," Froome said.

"Well, I don't set out to absolutely flog myself, but even when training is going well I'll be asking: could I do more?" he says.

And it makes me want to flog myself with birch branches for my own part in this circle-jerk of shallowness.

He once declared he was overworked, overtired and sponsored by Nurofen, but, he says, the daily grind has not yet sapped his zeal for ministry: "I don't find myself having to flog myself through the day because something always happens that's intensely moving.

I go so slowly but no longer flog myself.

It's been over a month since I flogged myself.

I waited for Darrell's reaction and as I did I flogged myself for the experiment, for having even noticed old people budging.

Bloggers – myself included – have been flogging the iPhone's benefits for years while giving short shrift to other devices.

I cannot imagine myself, any more than any other federal judge, upholding a statute that imposes the punishment of flogging" (Scalia 1989, 864).

Calling himself a "faint-hearted originalist," Scalia asserts in his 1989 article Originalism: The Lesser Evil, "I cannot imagine myself, any more than any other federal judge, upholding a statute that imposes the punishment of flogging".

But flogging is still flogging.