Example sentences for: thrashed

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

  • The first rule of mob movies is, never give someone a bigger beating than they deserve in the first act if you don't want to get your ass thrashed in the third.

  • The campaign that overturned American apartheid was a potent form of theater, in which demonstrators embraced the opportunity to be shot, gassed, and thrashed in order to generate outrage against Southern racism.

  • This Planes, Trains & Automobiles with a Christmas twist is thrashed: "[It] doesn't make you want to deck the halls as much as deck those responsible for it" (Renee Graham, the Boson Globe ). Home Improvement heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas plays a spoiled college kid who, after a hard journey home for the holidays, sees the error of his ways.

  • 2) Johnny Isakson, a former Republican state legislator, won the special election for Newt Gingrich's House seat . The media had a field day contrasting the "moderate" Isakson with the "combative" Gingrich, noting that Democrats "see Isakson as a pleasant change" and that Isakson thrashed second-place finisher Christina Jeffrey, the historian whom Gingrich had fired in 1995 over her comments on the Holocaust.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast