whipping post

How to use whipping post in a sentence

• The band manages one encore, “whipping post,” but halfway through the number the audience is busily streaming toward the exits.

  Stacks: Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band | Grover Lewis | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Although the whipping-post and stocks used to be common things in English towns, we saw them preserved only at Bottisford.

  British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. Murphy

• Should the rogue go to the court-house whipping post, or should Hide save the trouble of taking him there?

  Audrey | Mary Johnston

• That man did not lose caste who tied up another woman and had her thrashed until she brought forth at the whipping-post.

  The Last Boer War | H. Rider Haggard

• While the scenes at the whipping-post on flogging-day are fresh in my mind, I have written down the story of Mary Engle.

  Out of the Hurly-Burly | Charles Heber Clark