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
Bar the occasional appearance from interim chairman John Gilligan, Clement has been front of house, a human punchbag for all the ills of Ibrox.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024
Some television news showed looped videos of Thaksin exercising on 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
He also became the preferred punchbag for climate-change cynics in search of a straw man.
From Nature • Jul. 25, 2017
The press could be relentless, he warned; just look at the innocent Christopher Jefferies, who had become a front-page punchbag after the Joanna Yeates murder a couple of months before.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2017
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