thrashing
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Contemporary Examples of thrashing
At times she looks demonic—screaming and thrashing like an overacted Lady Macbeth.
Her thrashing, her dark visions, her frightened gasps will continue for the next 36 hours.
But despite MacKenzie's thrashing, it's been well-reviewed by critics and other Amazon commenters.
They beat up several journalists, though two particularly intrepid ones escaped the thrashing by feigning death.
And given her thrashing in 2008, Lauer asked, should the GOP nominee pick a more seasoned running mate than she?
Historical Examples of thrashing
The whole platoon was thrashing through the grass in their direction and the Rumi were gone as quickly as they had come.
Narakan Rifles, About Face!Jan Smith
When I used to lick you at school, who ever would have thought that I was thrashing a sucking statesman?
The History of Samuel TitmarshWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
He told the man to come up on deck and he would give him a thrashing.
Alexander's presence made him, somehow, feel foolish, as if his thrashing were less of an embarrassment than its cause.
A Pagan of the HillsCharles Neville Buck
There was a man once upon a time that I felt like thrashing—for much of your reason.
Rest HarrowMaurice Hewlett