Example sentences for: whipping

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

  • Indeed, footage shows her strawberry-blond hair whipping around her head, her skirts hiked up, her thighs tightly gripping her Stradivarius: The ecstatic sexual component is hard to ignore.

  • A shiver of excitement strikes the line of people waiting four-breast outside Theodore Roosevelt's front gate, and runs in serpentine reflex along Pennsylvania Avenue as far as Seventeenth Street, before whipping south and dissipating itself over half a mile a way.

  • cat whipping or whipping the cat a trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength: a wager is laid with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat.

  • Teachers kept problem children in line with corporal punishments that seem positively barbaric today: They tied children to whipping posts and beat them or branded students for their crimes--a "T" for thievery, a "B" for blasphemy.

  • Optimists predicted the LDP's whipping may jar it into taking firmer measures (tax cuts and other stimuli) to fix the economy.


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