How to Use thrashing in a Sentence

thrashing

noun
  • Europe romped to a nine-point thrashing.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Should the sawfish run into one, the crew would surely see the thrashing.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Luka was placed on heavy sedation, but even that wasn't enough to stop his heavy thrashing.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • So what have the companies done about this thrashing on Wall Street?
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • One person would hold the rod and drag ashore a thrashing, 200-pound sawfish.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The Blågult had started so well, mind you, with a 5-1 thrashing of Tunisia.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Exactly what was needed for a thrashing of Girona.
    — Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There was no thrashing of Houston on Sunday, in large part thanks to Smith.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Jonathan David had a hat trick in last Thursday’s 6-0 thrashing of Qatar.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • But because this is a derby, we’re supposed to believe this latest thrashing is a statement.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • One of the migrants died from the thrashings, and another committed suicide.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Last week, in a 36-7 thrashing of the Jets, the Colts defense had two sacks and three takeaways.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The Chargers will need to go back to the drawing board to determine what went wrong in their thrashing by the Texans.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The Wolfpack’s signature win was an 84-60 thrashing of Duke at home.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • That string included a 45-3 thrashing of the Jets, who would eliminate them on the same field six weeks later.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Here’s a very similar move in the memorable 4-1 thrashing of Bayern.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The latest Hoosier setback to the Buckeyes was a 56-14 thrashing.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Beating rivals like Everton at home is far more important than thrashings on the road by title challengers.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Their 5-0 thrashing of West Ham United on Sunday felt like a statement.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The 6-0 thrashing was highlighted by a blitz of three goals in the span of 76 seconds, the latter two lamp-lighters coming just nine ticks apart.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 27 Nov. 2025
  • That’s the same Auburn team that just three nights earlier on the same floor laid a 40-point thrashing on South Carolina.
    — USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The Texans advance to the divisional round after a thrashing of the Chargers.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The Hawks looked to bounce back from a 6-3 thrashing by the Vancouver Canucks three nights earlier and looked well on their way.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The Packers, who appeared to be in disarray after their opening thrashing at the hands of the Saints, are now 2-1.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Thursday’s 118-91 thrashing, though, invited more than a Game 7.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • The Bobcats got back in the win column with a 77-34 thrashing of Jackson State in their home opener.
    — Selby Lopez, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • As soon as a fish hits the deck (gently, so as not to bruise the meat) a deckhand dispatches it with a spike to the brain or spinal cord, which kills the fish quickly and reduces thrashing, which can stress the meat.
    — Tom Fowlks, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The Thunderbirds started the week off with a 29-1 thrashing of the Eagles last Monday.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
  • The fans reveled in the rally, the thrashing of Goliath, the awareness that this World Series pitted two foes who belonged on the same field.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The former started in the late 2000s and went on to offer a combination of thrashing and head-banging hardcore that bordered on punk.
    — Lawrence Burney, Pitchfork, 28 May 2025

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