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Example sentences for "scourged"

Lexicographically close words:
scour; scoured; scourer; scourers; scourge; scourges; scourgeth; scourging; scourgings; scouring
  1. He fasted till his life was in danger; he prayed seven times and scourged himself thrice daily, but found no peace.

  2. Thou, my cardinal, Canst think not to be scourged and crucified - Ha?

  3. And we see the pathetic little family scourged by hollow-eyed hunger from the land of their fathers into the land of the heathen Moabites.

  4. Judas had already been whipped and scourged by his remorse of conscience clean out of the world.

  5. The promenade deck, even the lofty spar deck, was scourged with the broken crests of waves that tried with demoniac energy to smash in the starboard bow, for the Sirdar was cutting into the heart of the cyclone.

  6. The sea, too, though running very high, had retreated many yards from the spot where he had finally dropped, and its surface was no longer scourged with venomous spray.

  7. Soon after their execution, Sabinus himself was scourged to death.

  8. In this position one of the savages scourged the wretched object on the thighs, legs, &c.

  9. However, the sentence of this merciless court only was, that they should be scourged through the city of Edinburgh, burnt in the face with a hot iron, and then sold as slaves to Barbadoes.

  10. The multitude in those early decades of the sixteenth century were scourged by constant visitations of the plague and other new and strange diseases, and they lived in perpetual dread of a Turkish invasion.

  11. He fasted and scourged himself; he practised all the ordinary forms of maceration, and invented new ones; but all to no purpose.

  12. The countries were scourged by incessant visits of the plague; new diseases, never before heard of, came to swell the terror of the people.

  13. But Beattie stripped him of all his assumed dignity, and having laid his back bare, scourged him till he smarted keenly, and cursed again.

  14. Sir,’ said he, ‘if you were as severely scourged in the House of Commons as I am, you would be glad of any dog to lick your sores.

  15. He kept up his usual custom of praying on bended knees for seven hours a day, and scourged himself three times a day and during the night.

  16. He fasted frequently and scourged himself to satisfy the desire of penance that ruled in a soul filled with the spirit of God.

  17. The patriarch to whom this honour accrued was that Anastasius who had been put by force into the place of the deposed Germanus, and was afterwards scourged and deposed by the same force under Leo's son and successor, Kopronymus.

  18. If they be private persons, when of rank, their property shall be confiscated; when of low degree, they shall be scourged and banished for ever.

  19. St. John of Damascus attests that "the blessed Germanus, distinguished in his life and his words, was scourged and banished".

  20. And now the blessed Germanus, illustrious in life and word, has been scourged and banished with many other bishops and fathers, whose names we know not.

  21. And he told me, too, that never since he had come to the place had blood fallen on the ground except his own when he scourged himself.

  22. I have scourged myself too often," he said, "to fear such pain; and our Saviour bore stripes for me.

  23. But we only know that he was scourged and hanged.

  24. In mockery of the Elamites and their god he is scourged and hanged.

  25. But there is no evidence that a human victim was slain for Tammuz: none that he was scourged and hanged.

  26. Parmentier quoted the story of our Babylonian festival, the Sacaea, in which a mock-king was scourged and slain.

  27. Mr. Frazer himself suggests that, in the progress of philanthropy, the man who used to be burned was merely scourged and hanged or crucified by way of 'a later mitigation of his sufferings.

  28. Pilate scourged Jesus before he gave him up to be crucified.

  29. And when he had scourged 15 And delivered Jesus, when Jesus, he delivered him to he had scourged him, to be be crucified.

  30. Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him.

  31. Your father, little ones, we scourged the naked man to death at Mixcoac.

  32. In the fourth Gospel there is only the one scene of mockery, and that is placed where Jesus is scourged by the order of Pilate (xix.

  33. The mockery recommences after Jesus is scourged and delivered over to be crucified (xv.

  34. As the invective of the old centurion who had been scourged for debt (ii.

  35. When I was in life I was the mad randy gipsy, that had been scourged and banished and branded; that had begged from door to door, and been hounded like a stray tyke from parish to parish; wha would hae minded HER tale?

  36. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus he delivered him to be crucified.

  37. And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

  38. The light of Judas Maccabeus went spinning, as if joy had scourged it.

  39. Who are these," said he, "coming hither, scourged in the blackest part of the hurricane?

  40. Stephen Vincent Benet] There were not many at that lonely place, Where two scourged hills met in a little plain.

  41. Men shout at me who may not speak (They scourged Thy back and smote Thy cheek).

  42. For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and scourged and spit upon.

  43. And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus.

  44. For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire.

  45. The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and that he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they did so cry out against him.

  46. Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him unto them to be crucified.

  47. They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

  48. And after they have scourged him, they will put him to death.

  49. And so Pilate being willing to satisfy the people, released to them Barabbas: and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

  50. And thou having been scourged by God, declare unto all men the great works and the power of God.

  51. But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.

  52. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

  53. Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

  54. And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified: and the third day he shall rise again.

  55. As for me, I know it is good to be purified in the furnace, and scourged with many stripes, as it is a fresh proof that I am cared for.

  56. They have scourged to death and transported your sons--and they have ruined your daughters, and brought them to sin and shame--sorrow and distraction.

  57. If Counsellor Crossmyloof used the dative for the nominative, I would have crossed his loof with a tight leathern strap, Mr. Saddletree; there is not a boy on the booby form but should have been scourged for such a solecism in grammar.

  58. And also from the Divine Teacher we may learn, that, even while forgiving enemies, there are Scribes and Pharisees to be exposed, and money-changers who must be scourged from the temple.

  59. But at a moment like the present, at the close of a ferocious rebellion, when hatred and passion are only pent up and not extinguished, an oath is little better than a cotton thread to hold a frigate scourged by a northwester.


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