flog
verb (used with object)
had flogged
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past perfectof flog.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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According to the Hiscox Artist Top 100, Aboudia, real name Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, had flogged 75 lots.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024
In America, the grandsons of the Puritan colonists who had flogged Quaker women as witches, denied him a place on the stage-coach, lest an offended God should strike it with lightning.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford
He had been the hope of Sir Button Budd, Who bred him there at the Fletchings stud, But the Fletchings jockey had flogged him cold In a narrow thing as a two-year-old.
From Right Royal by John Masefield
But here finding the water beginning to grow against them, and wearied by the exertion into which Stukeley's enthusiasm had flogged them, the watermen paused again, declaring that they could not reach Gravesend before morning.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Rafael Sabatini
Bloggs, dear old chap, flogged the meaning of Virgil into me, but I wish he had flogged in some of the meaning of life along with it.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
