Sentence examples for were lashed from inspiring English sources
verb
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. John Dryden
The report said the priests were lashed and shot by the troops.
He was handcuffed to a pool table and his legs were lashed to a fitness machine, Mr. Israilov said.
Other small figures in wood, usually engraved with tattoo patterns, were lashed as steps to stilt poles used in competitive races at commemorative festivals for the dead.
Wandering the Rock Hall on Tuesday morning, I found the ironies nearly too acute to list: banners reading "Music Defies Barriers" were lashed to actual barricades.
There, on the lawn, two of his sculptures, giant papier-mâché figures that formed part of an installation from the mid-1960s, were lashed like hostages to an oak tree.
The next day, two LST's -- Navy ships designed to land tanks onshore during combat -- were lashed to the freighter, and the refugees climbed onto them and finally made it to safety.
Mastodon's album "Leviathan," their head-banging take on "Moby-Dick," lets me imagine Ahab as a crazed guitar-shredder lashed to that great white whale, even as I am lashed to prostate cancer (though I don't plan on going down with the ship).
Do you endure weeks of screaming while your child is lashed willy-nilly to his cot?
His legs are lashed to planks that extend upward to form an X.
It is Ms. Quinn's fate to be lashed forever for her turnaround on term limits.
These are lashed in the middle to make stars of six or eight points, sometimes more.
