Sentence examples for the whipping from inspiring English sources

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the whipping

verb

To hit with a whip.

  • The rider whipped the horse.

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Gul said: "I'm just the whipping boy".

No, it's fashion that's the whipping boy.

The problem is we become the whipping boys," he said.

An evergreen army held its position in the whipping winds.

"Here come the whipping boys," said those faces.

And who is to be the whipping boy.

"Yeah, well I'm not keen on the whipping system.

We are the whipping boy of the coalition".

In England the Whipping Act of 1530 authorized the whipping of thieves, blasphemers, poachers, men and women guilty of minor offenses, and even the insane.

Overhead, great frigatebirds, 'iwa in Hawaiian, still hover in the whipping trade winds.

He became the whipping boy of the jailers but he remained implacable," Mr Henin said.

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