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Example sentences for: whipping

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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.
It's no fun whipping McCain when he's already whipping himself.
Thus Bakaly suffers little and can be the whipping boy for all leaks.
Either way, the point was that investors were taskmasters, Marine drill sergeants whipping corporate America into shape.
A piece argues that Newt Gingrich serves as both whipping boy and ghost for the dispirited Republican Party.