Use "thrashes" in a sentence

1. John thrashes about as if in a trance

2. He thrashes feebly in the water, begins to sink

3. Berndt appears for lunch and the three of us pretend that nothing has occurred, spending a pleasant afternoon taking it in turns to play the board game Berndt taught me on the barge … as then, he thrashes both Joris and I mercilessly

4. Christina thrashes, but Molly is heavy and doesn’t budge

5. Edward thrashes again and I say it louder, sterner

6. drink, but she mostly just thrashes around and knocks

7. The peasant beats it, beats it savagely, beats it at last not knowing what he is doing in the intoxication of cruelty, thrashes it mercilessly over and over again

8. The miller thrashes him with his whip, and for once this gallant does not march in the classical style