Example sentences for: flagellation

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

  • Their custom of self-punishment, in the form of flagellation during the Holy Week ceremonies, aroused much interest and was reported widely in many East Coast publications.

  • The stark realism you’ll see in Caravaggio’s Flagellation and the Seven Works of Mercy launched a whole Neapolitan school of “Caravaggeschi” displayed here.

  • There are fourteen essays in the collection, and if anyone ever had any question about how to distinguish erotica from pornographica, the answer lies in these pages: some of these essays are clearly erotic (“Bottoms Up!The Fine Arts and Flagellation,” “Robert Musil: What Price Homosexual Sadism?

  • To the right of the chapel is a fragment of rare jasper said to come from the column to which Jesus was tied for his flagellation.

  • Archaeologists, still unsure of what was involved, suggest that the gorgeously painted scenes of dancing satyrs, flagellation, and a woman kneeling before a sacred phallus indicate rites that the town preferred to keep at a decorous distance, in this splendid suburban villa, most likely the home of a priestess.


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