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Example sentences for "sound thrashing"

  • The elder brothers came and gave him a sound thrashing which he took very quietly, and after this they did not separate.

  • I was innocent of violation, but it was quite true that I had given the girl a sound thrashing.

  • We've a good mind to give you both a sound thrashing," cried Phil, angrily.

  • Then you'll get a sound thrashing, Nat Poole.

  • I gave you a sound thrashing once, but it doesn't seem to have done you much good.

  • I feel as if I should like to give him a sound thrashing, but, at the same time, I feel that I could not raise a hand against him.

  • I can't help wishing that he had given that confounded young cad a sound thrashing.

  • I asked myself, but all the same gave the ponies a sound thrashing to make them go.

  • Having landed before he came ashore, I recaptured mine, gave him a sound thrashing, and rode on to Akkeshi, a few hundred yards from the landing-place.

  • I went for him, and gave him a sound thrashing, which sometimes has more effect than all the "willing" in the world.

  • Leicester concentrated his force upon the king to whom he gave personally a sound thrashing.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sound thrashing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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