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Example sentences for "trouncing"

Lexicographically close words:
troublous; trough; troughs; trounce; trounced; troupe; troupes; trous; trouser; trousered
  1. Prithee, was it not upon her decks that Sir Francis Drake held command when he gave such a trouncing to the Duke of Medina-Sidonia three years ago?

  2. But more than the hope of gain was the hope, which every man in the fleet felt in his inmost heart, of giving a trouncing to the proud Dons of Spain.

  3. Serve me now by trouncing the knave who battles with you.

  4. Such trouncing as I wish to give this lad I can easily give to you, Sir Knight, and you wish it?

  5. Like enough he'll git a trouncing from his father," she added cheerfully, as some compensation.

  6. The land alive, don't know what a trouncing is!

  7. No lists here between mailed knights for a lady's favour, but merely the trouncing of a chuckle-head for spitting on the deck of a coal-carrier.

  8. Now it so happens that not since I was a boy have I struck a person with my naked fist, and I candidly admit that I enjoyed the trouncing I administered to poor Tom Spink.

  9. But if there's a pleasure worth paying for it's the trouncing of a villain,' said he; and he had been informed that Dr.


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    Other words:
    battery; beating; collapse; conquest; crash; deathblow; debacle; defeat; destruction; downfall; drub; failure; fall; flagellation; hiding; lacing; lashing; licking; loss; mastery; overthrow; overturn; punishment; quietus; rout; ruin; smash; spanking; strapping; subdual; subduing; subjugation; thrashing; trimming; trouncing; undoing; whipping