But oh, how many thrashings do they get when their tricks are found out!
And for playing we got the severest thrashings from our teacher.
Besides, the thrashings wouldn't be anything to the scorn and contempt that we'd meet everywhere.
Thrashings Mr. Bailey could make light of, but the Boer's threat of shooting had stuck in his mind.
Boy Bailey allowed for a certain proportion of thrashings in his experiences; they ranked in the balance-sheet of his transactions as a sort of office expenses.
Yes'um, used to go to corn shuckings en rye thrashings en pea thrashings plenty times.
Of course Don Quixote saw it in a different light, for he thought that the thrashings tended to bring the hero of the book into contempt.
There were some thrashings that you could run away from, because in the meantime the anger would pass away, and other thrashings where it answered best to shed as many tears as possible.
People said you should speak the truth, but most thrashings could be avoided by making up a white lie, if it was a good one and you took care of your face.
Meanwhile, the Friar's exertions were redoubled at every moment, and both his prayers and his thrashings became more animated.
They cared as little for the cow-hide as the "calendar;" neither saints nor thrashings could persuade them to move on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrashings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
