How to Use thrash in a Sentence

thrash

1 of 2 verb
  • The team thrashed them last week.
  • He thrashed me with his belt.
  • She thrashed around in her sleep.
  • Something was thrashing wildly in the water.
  • Was that like for you to be thrashed around or thrash yourself around in that way?
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 May 2022
  • At times, multiple fish would thrash and quiver along the rocks.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Both bands have been around since the mid-’90s and thrash as hard as ever.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Sharks thrash about in the turbid water between us and the man.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Then another would turn on its side and rapidly thrash its tail.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2021
  • And the restaurants are thrashing.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But yeah tons of doom and stoner metal and stuff like that, even thrash metal.
    — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Baher, veiled in a black burqa, thrashed back toward him through chest-high water.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The video shows thrashing in the water and a pool of blood about 50 yards off the coast.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 May 2023
  • The 16-year-old flails her arms, thrashes and kicks — sometimes for hours.
    — Calmatters, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The snake is already limp when the gator uses a wrestling-like move to flip and thrash it against a small piece of grass.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
  • That’s like supreme Eighties thrash with the big breakdown in the middle.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In her expert hands, the music soared and sang, throbbed and thrashed, all to enormous impact.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Night terrors might lead to thrashing limbs, growling, or biting.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Within seconds, the coral snake began thrashing around in an attempt to get rid of the wasp.
    — Ricky Pinela, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The restrained man thrashed and kicked for at least two minutes before becoming limp.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 7 May 2023
  • Trump has been thrashing about for months looking for ways to manipulate the midterms.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
  • By the time the camera is rolling, the muscovy hen is thrashing the hawk and attempting to drown it.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The protesters thrashed on the floor, yelling their names and ID numbers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Blubber is not easily tearable, and even with their sharp teeth, sharks have to thrash from side to side to get a piece.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Gray waves rolled crashing toward the shore and thrashed against the wooden pier, slapping like bare hands against the flat rocks.
    — Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Sometimes these dream-like images trip toward nightmares, as the women kick and thrash.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • A lot of the ideas are sent through the internet rather than the days of a band thrashing it out in the room together.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2026
  • Look for signs like the cat stopping purring, stiffening, thrashing their tail, or hissing.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In the clip, the shark thrashes as the group of rescuers work to move the animal back into the water.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • And she's certainly not supposed to suddenly thrash around and need to change her entire life.
    — Kristin Iversen, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021

thrash

2 of 2 noun
  • The shark swam away with a thrash of its tail.
  • The album needed a four-minute thrash song that harkened back to our first era.
    — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Roem has spent a decade as the lead singer of thrash band Cab Ride Home.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
  • Caggiano, who used to be with thrash metal band Anthrax, gets pumped by the crowds.
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
  • Her sound may be thrash-ready, but the lyrics are the tender words of a young woman who feels and thinks deeply.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Dig in for thrash kabobs, metal mushroom tuna melt, and…hummus?
    — Bon Appétit, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Some — many — would say that Slayer is the greatest thrash-metal band ever.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 26 May 2018
  • Speed metal and thrash came next and after that of course, death metal, which changed everything for me.
    — Ron Hart, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2017
  • Pantera fans are getting psyched for the upcoming reunion of the beloved thrash metal icons.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2022
  • They are made of stainless steel and come with a steel cable (or leather straps, your choice), to withstand the thrash of baggage handling.
    — Danielle Calma, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In that way, Megaforce became an important bridge to the mainstream for the thrash metal subgenre as a whole.
    — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The last two songs ended in all-out thrash conflagrations, delighting the slam-dancers at the center of the floor.
    — Steve Knopper, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026
  • But sometimes prey gets stuck in a web and thrashes from side to side, emitting vibrations parallel to the spiral.
    — Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025
  • While punctuating her stage-prowl with stomps and thrashes, that blue flame that always seems to be glowing in the back of her throat burned hot and steady.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The iconic thrash metal band came back this year, performing as the headliner on Thursday.
    — Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, the label was nurturing another soon-to-be-huge thrash outfit, Anthrax.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Fans of thrash metal, folk rock, punk, and hill country blues will be able to find common ground this month in helping to fund support for people with cancer.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The band is widely considered a formative influence on the thrash metal genre.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021
  • Ninety bands are on the agenda for Furnace Fest, which focuses on heavy rock, thrash, punk and metal.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Scott Ian and Frank Bello, members of the thrash metal band Anthrax.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The morning sky like blue lacquer on porcelain, the breeze off the Lac, and mere feet away, the thrash of dozens of racers tearing through the water.
    — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The term has been widely used throughout the decades by fans, journalists and outlets chronicling the history of thrash.
    — Jon Wiederhorn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Exodus, who are one of the bay-area thrash scenes earliest bands, just so happen to be at the forefront of this massive renaissance.
    — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Raven’s early albums were crucial DNA in what became thrash-metal.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Kirk Hammett used to be in Exodus (another thrash metal band).
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Power Trip arrived at its brand of thrash metal through a lens of basement hardcore punk and fervent prison-reform politics.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The iconic thrash metal band is releasing its final album later this month and subsequently heading out on a farewell tour.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • More local acts have yet to be booked for June 17, which will be headlined by thrash metal act Oblivion Zero.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The mood of those sessions may have been more focused on having a good time in Los Angeles than capturing a new thrash masterpiece.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2021
  • Her prayer, stab-sharp, convulses not only her temples and the hand that clutches a dagger, but the whole rough thrash of limbs, gown, and sheets that fills this single-minded canvas.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020

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