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Example sentences for "trounced"

Lexicographically close words:
troubling; troublous; trough; troughs; trounce; trouncing; troupe; troupes; trous; trouser
  1. So, Master Sheriff, stay that sentence I pronounced On those two dozen odd: deserving to be trounced Soundly, and yet .

  2. He trounced Whigs, Quakers and Presbyterians because he loved authority both in Church and State.

  3. He trounced the Scotch to annoy Boswell and amuse himself.

  4. And without waiting to hear what Kubik had to say, he reached for a whip and trounced the poor lad to within an inch of his life.

  5. And without waiting to hear what Kubik had to say, he reached down the whip again and trounced the poor boy to within an inch of his life.

  6. Am I to be trounced and cudgelled in the face of hundreds, and--and half murdered, and nothing for it?

  7. By this time the sorely trounced Jan was on his feet and Finn had begun to lick his son's streaming ears.

  8. But even where he detected Bill at fault, he could not trounce the ex-leader as he trounced the other dogs, because he and Bill knew very well that there could be no sparring, no such lightsome thing as mere chastisement, between them.

  9. Grip had offended by his ruthless onslaught upon a half-grown pup, and Finn had trounced him soundly for that.

  10. And there was scarcely a man among them but could have trounced three of the yellow men, and would have done it gladly too, in honour of the red facings.

  11. Then he turned to the unfaithful knave, and trounced him right well for his cowardice, and stripped him of all his property.

  12. Is it possible," he asked, "that through an unlucky error I have trounced the local archbishop?

  13. Gilabhan námù ang ílang tím sa baskitbul, We trounced their team in basketball.

  14. Sa baskit nasikwáti mi, We were trounced in the basketball game.

  15. My first impulse was to follow her and give her such a spank as Mistress Molly administered the day she trounced her for pushing Peter into the creek.

  16. I caught the fellow by the market yonder, and trounced him till he could neither stand nor sit.

  17. I have trounced him soundly seven times, and mean to continue.

  18. In addition to these commandos which were trounced on the journey, report said that General Kemp with some 800 followers was flitting between the kopjes and crevices on the south-west of Olifant's Nek.

  19. Early in October they reunited south of Darlington and were again attacked and trounced by the indefatigable Colonel, who drove them north with the loss of three of their number killed and five wounded.

  20. But Ivan Golik took out a fragment of the broken bow, fifty pounds in weight, and trounced her finely.

  21. In stories Warrington would have appeared about this time and soundly trounced this impudent scoundrel.

  22. After that he went his way unmolested, having soundly trounced one of the biggest bullies in the teak timber-yards at Rangoon.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trounced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beat; beaten; bested; confounded; defeated; discomfited; down; fallen; fixed; floored; licked; outdone; overcome; overmatched; overpowered; overthrown; overwhelmed; panicked; ruined; scattered; settled; skinned; trimmed; undone; upset; whipped; worsted