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    Use "drubbing" in a sentence

    drubbing example sentences

    drubbing


    1. After drubbing the bride in half a dozen games, Narasamma switched over to the sport of tamarind seeds


    2. Fred didn't even listen to the Capacity Manager's drubbing


    3. After drubbing Jeff twice at pool, Grady suggested that it was time to find


    4. By this time Don Quixote and Sancho, who had witnessed the drubbing of Rocinante, came up panting, and said Don Quixote to Sancho:


    5. "Not for me either," said Sancho, "for more than four hundred Moors have so thrashed me that the drubbing of the stakes was cakes and fancy-bread to it


    6. Suddenly the poor duenna felt two hands seize her by the throat, so tightly that she could not croak, while some one else, without uttering a word, very briskly hoisted up her petticoats, and with what seemed to be a slipper began to lay on so heartily that anyone would have felt pity for her; but although Don Quixote felt it he never stirred from his bed, but lay quiet and silent, nay apprehensive that his turn for a drubbing might be coming


    7. At nine o'clock in the morning she was already quite drunk, dishevelled, half-naked, covered with bruises, her face was powdered, but she had a black-eye, blood was trickling from her nose and her teeth; some cabman had just given her a drubbing


    8. But then she’d pulled the “I can’t go there” BS with him, which had been the reason for the verbal drubbing he’d given her in the cemetery


    9. Those who believed in the fight were mighty curious to know which of the two had had the worst of it, and got a good drubbing


    10. At nine o'clock in the morning she was already quite drunk, dishevelled, half-naked, covered with bruises, her face was powdered, but she had a black eye, blood was trickling from her nose and her teeth; some cabman had just given her a drubbing

    11. It was just as some tattered, unshaven, ill-humoured organ-grinder puts away in his travelling box the Punch who has been making an upset, drubbing all the other puppets, selling his soul to the devil, and who at last ends his existence, till the next performance, in the same box with the devil, the negroes, the Pierrot, and Mademoiselle Katerina with her fortunate lover, the captain


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    Synonyms for "drubbing"

    beating drubbing lacing licking thrashing trouncing whacking debacle slaughter walloping whipping

    "drubbing" definitions

    a sound defeat


    the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows