Example Sentences

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For 30 years, Morta Skuld has thrashed and mangled the bounds of death metal.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2021

Like an out-of-control fire hose, the Yellow river has thrashed across the north China plain, its sea mouth shifting by hundreds of miles.

From Economist • Sep. 8, 2016

In the 21 years since he dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, William Henry Gates III, 41, has thrashed competitors in the world of desktop operating systems and application software.

From Time Magazine Archive

Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's a man by the name of Perry—lives just across the Missouri line—who has thrashed fifteen hundred bushel and he'll lend you three hundred or so.

From Dust by Haldeman-Julius, Marcet