Sentence examples for of lashings from inspiring English sources

They associate the EU with the end of Francoist isolation and the arrival of lashings of cash from Brussels.

"The idea that we should revert to the Mary Berry diet of lashings of cream and butter is probably not a good idea," he said.

In what has become a regular show in the hearing rooms on Capitol Hill, the oil company executives took a second day of lashings on Thursday.

They said they were made to change their names, give up their language and eat worm-infested porridge, all under the threat of lashings and other punishment.

OIL HEARINGS In what has become a regular show in the hearing rooms on Capitol Hill, oil company executives took another day of lashings from Congressional lawmakers.

(I suppose our ruddy and leathery complexion can be attributed to a healthy diet of lashings of shiraz and cabernet sauvignon).

His ambitious dances are marked by intense interdisciplinary collaborations (often resulting in immersive visual environments), an interest in technology and an extreme physicality, full of lashing limbs, buckling torsos and complex shifts in speed and spatial patterns.

He always made clear that it could also be not a pastoral paradise but a purgatory of "lashing rain", and "children dying of quite ordinary diseases like whooping cough".

Over seven-plus minutes of moody atmospherics, ranging from delicate, softly-softly keyboards to sound effects of lashing rain and rumbling thunder, he goes from the brink of despair to desperately scrabbling at a sliver of hope.

Loads of meat, lashings of cream sauces and tons of wine.

That surely calls for lashings of ginger beer.