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Example sentences for "lashing"

Lexicographically close words:
laser; lasers; lash; lashed; lashes; lashings; lashins; lashless; lasht; lasi
  1. An impetuous, gusty wind is represented as lashing the ocean at Lehua, thus picturing the emotional stir attending Kalola's departure.

  2. Lashing the mount, lashing the sea, Lurking place of the goddess.

  3. Immeasurable power was lashing itself into a merciless fury.

  4. She must avert her gaze from him for a moment or the tides that he was lashing about her would lift and carry her on their outsweep.

  5. He stared for a moment or two in silence, lashing his tail wrathfully.

  6. The flat world of field and wood about Bitter Creek was frozen as hard as iron, and a biting gale, which carried a thin drift of dry, gritty snow, was lashing it pitilessly.

  7. With lashing tail and beating fins, he dragged his captor out from among the weed stems.

  8. Lashing them together with redwood twisted into a "gad" and propelling the impromptu raft with a pole, we landed safely on the island.

  9. For four hours we tramped through the wet underbrush with the elements pelting and lashing us in their fury.

  10. The placidity of the river permitted the lashing together of the boats once more for a time and while we drifted this way down with the easy current the Major and Prof.

  11. On each side were the steep, ragged granitic walls, with the tumultuous waters lashing and pounding against them in a way that precluded all idea of portage or let-down.

  12. Riding eastward with their backs to the southerly storm, nevertheless now and again the wind swirled about fiercely, to send the lashing rain against their faces.

  13. Noses in air, tails lashing and eyes staring wildly, the frightened groups had swept together and were rushing down upon them in one mad stampede.

  14. If in parrying, binding, or lashing the Foil, it Falls, and that the Thrust is made without Interval, it is Good.

  15. He had borne Rosabel some distance along the beach, both drenched by the lashing spray, and his strength was nearly exhausted.

  16. The storm which swept over the waters of the lower bay, lashing them into a wild fury, and piling up the angry waves upon them, was not merely a squall; it was a hurricane, which raged for half an hour with uninterrupted violence.

  17. Jock, who had been toiling close behind for some time and gaining slowly, was not five yards off then; the floundering and lashing of the crocodile were bewildering, but on he went as grimly and eagerly as ever.

  18. She wanted suddenly to finger it, and did, laying her cheek to it with a rushing sense of sweetness, and then suddenly, on wild lashing tears of her resentment and terror, her hands tightening into and wringing it.

  19. We worked hard to construct a raft, but after cutting down four trees and lashing the green logs together, and pushing them into the whirling current, we saw them sink like lead.

  20. Already the roar of the swell, lashing at the base, was loud in our ears!

  21. The sea was now on the other quarter, and lashing over the top rail with great fury.

  22. On the edge of town they saw a negro lashing a pair of horses along the turnpike toward them.

  23. There was a loud report, and the sound of shot harmlessly lashing the water.

  24. So, taking careful note of my directions, I started out, my head bowed to save my face from the lashing of the storm; my legs wallowing uncertainly through the varying depths of drifts.

  25. The horses reared and shied at the bundle of kindling, whereupon a gentleman inside the carriage leaned out and swore, and then the brutal coachman, lashing out at the bare-headed woman with his whip, struck the boy on his naked legs.

  26. They tugged and hauled, and only dragged the lashing loose, while the sled seemed soldered to the hard-packed middle of the drift.

  27. The storm demon had broken loose in all its fury and was lashing sea and land in wild frenzy.

  28. Skipper Ed and Jimmy were in advance and had Skipper Ed's komatik loaded with the larger proportion of the remaining seals, and were lashing the load into place, when Bobby arrived.

  29. After a while the noise of the lashing changed to that lapping sound which only contact with the land can give, and soon Tom could distinguish a solid mass outlined in the hollow blackness of the night.

  30. Longer we wait the worse the Creek gets,” shouted Steve, and they climbed into the wet saddles again, with their hats pulled down over their eyes and the rain lashing down on their stooped shoulders.

  31. More horsemen were strung along the length of the sides of the moving droves, the whips snapping and lashing at the laggards.

  32. Icy gales swept over the wilderness, sending the inhabitants to cover and lashing the great trees until it seemed as if they could not stand.

  33. For days a fierce storm raged, the keen wind lashing the branches of the forest trees and piling the drifts deep.

  34. She pointed to some of the men from the ship, who were going about the decks, picking up chairs and lashing fast, with ropes, things that might roll or slide about.

  35. They were beating the water with oars and poles, and something near the boat was lashing about, making the waves turn into foam.

  36. However, as the Bobbsey twins saw the sailors making fast everything, and lashing loose awnings and ropes, and as they saw the sky beginning to get dark, though it was not yet night, they were all a little frightened.

  37. The saurian was lashing the water into foam.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lashing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.