Quickly, thrashing his way to the drowning girl, Pluto dives beneath the murky depths.
Thrashing the deadly waves Pluto brings her to the shore.
Two of my old beaux're coming to the thrashing and if they was to see me without my teeth they'd jest naturally make Jim miserable and me a divorcee.
He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with his arms like the sails of a windmill.
Daddy ordered them to go home at once, and when they had got into dry things to wait in his dressing-room till he had leisure to give them the biggest thrashing they'd ever had yet.
They began to fight, and Henriksen had to give "Barnet" a good thrashing in order to part him from the other.
Bob did not like the looks of the strange dark man who got out of the car and came into the yard with the air of a thrashing machine bolting into whatever came in his way.
And, as I am a living man, I swear that if Jaffery had taken her at her word and laid on lustily she would have taken her thrashing without a murmur.
If he could have given her a good sound thrashing he would have been a happy man.
Only a few days before he had been thinking of nothing but the means of giving him a sound thrashing without getting into trouble with the police.
If grasped by the body, the racer struggles with a violent lateralthrashing to break the grip of its captor, at the same time striking to bite and discharging musk, urinary wastes and feces.
A racer startled at close range often sets out with a violent thrashing that attracts attention to a given spot, then glides away so silently and rapidly that its course is not detected.
The posterior part of the snake protruded into the open, and its thrashinghad directed the attention of the observer to it.
Imagine what a humiliation it was for a Pope's mule to find herself hanging from a great height, legs thrashing about like a fly caught in a web.
It was a pretty job of thrashingbut it did him good.
And the big-hearted kindness of him, thrashing the runaway into sense.
But he drank the coffee and when I had damped the fire to ease his mind, I explained to him just why I'd felt the need of thrashing him.
I ducked beneath the thrashing wings, and ran on up the stairs; behind me the dying falcon flapped, threshed and rolled down the stairs, a tangle of wings, landing far below with a flailing thump.
All was now ready; after countless efforts on our part, or, if it is preferred, after a thorough thrashing for every dog, we had at last got them in a line before the sledge in Alaska harness.
So while you are thrashing one the others start off, and the result is not always flattering to the driver.
But I shall enlist at the very first call to arms, and offer my life towards the thrashing of the cowards who have perpetrated this incredible crime.
I only hope I may meet you again some time when I am off duty, and can give you the thrashing you deserve.
It was about a week later that the brig, thrashing along to the southward, close-hauled, and with her fore topgallantsail and main royal stowed, experienced a thrillingly narrow escape from destruction.
If I were fined a hundred pounds for it, I should think it cheap for the luxury of thrashing such a hound!
I was for making Sclanders, his father, bring him over and give him the thrashing of his life, right there before the proofs of his sins.
Carroll, and there was a banging and thrashing of canvas as the sloop came up into the wind.
Carroll agreed with this opinion; but there is a great difference between running to leeward with the sea behind the vessel, and thrashing to windward when it is ahead, and he hesitated.
The thrashing sail must be mastered; the tackle cracking with the strain must be hauled in.
The engine revolved again, and in a trice the propeller was thrashing the water; then, ever so gently and quietly, they stole up beside the island, while on the far side the Turkish launch drifted ever closer to them.
By now the propeller of the little boat was thrashing the shallow waters of the marshes, with a vigour which made itself felt throughout the timbers of the tiny vessel.
His only resource lay in thrashing me off his premises--as you have seen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrashing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
