Example sentences for: flogged

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

  • Branding fell from favor in the18 th century, but students were still flogged or tied to chairs (for more on corporal punishment, click ). In the early 19 th century, school reformer Horace Mann reported that he saw 328 floggings in one school during the course of a week.

  • But while he's thinking it over, Osmin goes into a paroxysm of bloodthirst, demanding that the four be first decapitated, then hanged, then impaled, then burnt at the stake, then tied up and drowned, and then flogged:

  • But formerly—it was frequent enough for him—to feel his back had been flogged, and she would tell him to—stretch out flat.

  • Later he and his brother Carlos were accused of stealing a horse, a crime for which Carlos was lynched and Joaquín flogged.


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