punchbag
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The white-haired veteran then demonstrates the technique with a series of perfectly-delivered powerful blows to a punchbag mounted on the gym wall.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Some television news showed looped videos of Thaksin exercising in the grounds of his Dubai mansion late last year, pounding energetically at a punchbag while attempting an occasional high kick.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023
From a smart punchbag cover fitted with sensors to a device which tests your reflexes, and wearable technology to help train your breathing, BBC Click’s Lara Lewington tests out some of the latest fitness tech.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023
Yet Pollard and her real life peers weren’t just a punchbag for the press.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2017
He also became the preferred punchbag for climate-change cynics in search of a straw man.
From Nature ● Jul. 25, 2017
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