How to Use flog in a Sentence

flog

verb
  • The sailors were flogged for attempting a mutiny.
  • Good hustle for those who are flogging their spares and that, but p h e w.
    — SI.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Hard to make that case -- the media has not been guilty of flogging quack cures.
    — The Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2020
  • And then flogs her with his belt and forces a horrified June to watch.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2018
  • Like any good author, one of my duties is taking to the airwaves to flog my book.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2010
  • Mr Befekadu was flogged across his bare feet with an electric cable.
    — The Economist, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Merchants would dress in old-timey garb and flog their wares on the sidewalks, and there was music and food.
    — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2018
  • Still, recruiters have flogged those benefits for years, with little to show for it.
    — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
  • That way, the app can simply scoop up data and flog it on with minimal effort.
    — Sean Keach, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The director was sentenced to eight years behind bars, as well as flogging and a fine.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 25 May 2024
  • Stop flogging yourself over something that is nobody’s beeswax.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
  • He was flogged with wires, part of the frequent beatings inflicted by guards against all the detainees.
    — Maggie Michael, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • The guys volunteer to take turns getting flogged in this prisoner’s place, so the map isn’t erased.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Garuda is not the only Asian airline to flog its food to the land-lubbing public.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Uncle Usama would flog both Mother and me in front of the whole compound.
    — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • To be publicly flogged for how much Pa permitted us to do — that felt grossly unfair.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But, before flogging the soon-to-be-dead plot point, the muscle leers and the sound of cracking knuckles echoes off the walls.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That is what is known (if I may be permitted to flog a tired phrase one last time) as an inconvenient truth.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2011
  • The idea is not to flog yourself for mistakes but to acknowledge them with future improvements in mind.
    — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The media flagged and flogged it for AI incompetence.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Religious police spotted him and, claiming that his hair was too long, flogged him with an electric cable.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • The novel is an exposé of the Navy’s disciplinary practices and use of flogging.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • Lines of vendors are here from dusk until dawn, eagerly flogging everything from fresh fruit to fish and fabrics.
    — Story, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • He was flogged with wires, part of the frequent beatings inflicted by guards against all the detainees, the AP found.
    — Maggie Michael, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • By the mid-1960s similar gizmos were being flogged by door-to-door salesmen.
    — The Economist, 22 July 2017
  • Starbucks started flogging its pumpkin spice latte, the drink that started it all, in August.
    — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
  • In other hands this might have been one more junkie saga, focused on a down-and-out musician during one last dreary tour, flogging an album that no one wants to buy.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Children were flogged so severely, sometimes receiving more than 100 lashes, that their shirts were stuck to their backs with blood.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The fear now is that, since the pieces are too recognisable to be sold intact, the robbers will break out the diamonds and sapphires to flog them separately.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • As last year ended, the financial media mostly flogged the familiar Goldilocks theme—conditions are not too hot and not too cold.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025

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