Sentence examples for lash him from inspiring English sources

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She countered that Mr. Lazio was waging a campaign of insults, and sought to lash him to the policies of Newt Gingrich.

His father used his fists, but sometimes his mother would lash him with a horsewhip, or submerge his head in a bucket of water.

He recounts how his father caned him for deviating from a "daily 10-hour study timetable for the summer holidays," and how he would lash him 20 times and then rub Tiger Balm into the wound.

In the seven years since the release of his first commercial record, Dylan had become the white whale of 20th-century popular song, a wild, unconquerable and often baffling force of musical nature who drove fans and critics Ahab-mad in their efforts to spear him, lash him to the hull and render him merely comprehensible.

It's a way of binding ourselves, much as, in The Odyssey, Odysseus asks his men to lash him to the mast so he can guide the ship past the Sirens.

Ulysses wanted to hear their song, so had his crew lash him to the ship's mast under strict orders not to untie him, after which they were to block their ears until they were safely out of range of the island.

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But he turned the good economic news into a rallying cry against his opponent, Mitt Romney, lashing him to the policies of the George W. Bush administration.

One man lifted up his kameez and showed me fresh red welts crisscrossing his back where he said Iranian border guards had lashed him with a metal cable.

I strongly encouraged the boy, lashing him to the hood of the Land Rover and bringing him to the sign-up.

Conservative critics lashed him for attending the church, and his membership fed into a line of criticism by some voters that he is unpatriotic and aligned with radicals.

Senator John Kerry is paying the price for even considering higher gas taxes years ago; a Bush campaign ad lashed him for what it called this "wacky idea".

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