Use "trouncing" in a sentence

1. Even though Horrifying Hippo spent much of his daytime hours happily trouncing around in the mud, he did not ignore the importance of his personal hygiene and thus took pride in both his overall appearance as well as the health of his organism

2. To an awful bouncing, and a fearful trouncing

3. Rumor had it he’d actually bought the election five years earlier, trouncing the three-term incumbent

4. “A sense of insecurity? Of inferiority? The fact that Greece has accomplished something they never imagined possible? The trouncing of all those superior Europeans who are way above Greece socially, politically and above all economically?”

5. He smiled at her before trouncing back to the counter