Example Sentences

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He then revealed his "scourged back" as proof.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022

Pope Francis, in 2013, said the shroud is an “icon of a man scourged and crucified.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2022

The subject, from St. John’s Gospel, shows Pontius Pilate presenting the scourged and mocked Christ to the crowd.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2021

Diane Offutt, eyes squeezed shut, nodded amen, as did the girlfriend, while Kovler portrayed their man as industrious and responsible, not someone fitting the profile of a shooter in a metropolis scourged by hair-trigger mayhem.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2019

Then he began to chant aloud: Burn, scourged world, Furious furnace, Inferno impure— He opened his eyes.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry