Example sentences for: drubbing

How can you use “drubbing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The papers read the Japanese returns--described by USAT and the Wall Street Journal as "stunning" and by the NYT as a "brutal drubbing"--as the electorate's impatience with Hashimoto's ineffectual response to Japan's worse recession in fifty years.

  • Mondrian's later offerings came in for a drubbing, though his early representational work appears popular.

  • Considering the drubbing given the original--a 1994 French comedy titled Little Indian, Big City --reception of the Disney remake seems almost positive.

  • Following the resignation of Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto after a drubbing in elections for the Upper House, Japan's best-selling newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, said in an editorial Monday that "the change is cataclysmic" and called on the next prime minister to dissolve the Lower House to permit a general election.

  • Noun . A crushing (humiliating) defeat, a drubbing, a fleecing, a loss, usually viewed from the receiving end: We took a right regular fxxxing at Tobruk.


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