Thrashing Sentence Examples

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  • Jade had freed himself during his thrashing and launched out of the door, machete in hand as he flung himself on Kris.

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  • His thrashing was the signal he was in the throes of dream.

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  • Even with the door closed, Jade.s madness and the sounds of his body thrashing against the wall were audible in the small courtyard.

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  • Sarah immediately ceased thrashing, but Jackson's control took longer.

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  • He has these god-awful nightmares and wakes me up thrashing around.

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  • We have no clear information about the mind of the Flagellants, who in 1259, and again in 1 349, swarmed through the streets of European cities, naked and thrashing themselves, till the blood ran, with leather thongs and iron whips.

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  • She was thrashing about on the floor, fighting for breath.

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  • It is good for me, bad for another traveler, and for himself it's unavoidable, because he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses.

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  • The case, as represented by the offended parties, was that, after seizing the transports, Major Denisov, being drunk, went to the chief quartermaster and without any provocation called him a thief, threatened to strike him, and on being led out had rushed into the office and given two officials a thrashing, and dislocated the arm of one of them.

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  • It sounded fantastic and came to an end with a thrashing guitar crescendo.

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  • Give him a good, sound thrashing, do you hear?

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  • Could it be possible that he would receive that thrashing?

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  • Her were fair wide and handsome and sweet sixteen, And her longs for a ride on me thrashing machine.

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  • I played the same piano that Chas & Dave had just been thrashing away at.

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  • Or equally we could say we clearly are just thrashing around in the dark in the hope of landing a winner.

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  • The children 's conkers took some thrashing too in their rounds, the overall winner for them being Joshua.

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  • More thrashing followed in some squeezes along the rift.

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  • It was suitable for hauling loads from five to eight tons or for driving a small thrashing machine.

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  • This area of the Granary was where the thrashing mill was installed many years ago.

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  • Hear for yourself Their sound is flamenco in a head on collision of punk rock riffs, pounding bass and thrashing drums.

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  • But how could a top four global media colossus have reached this catastrophic state and endure such a financial thrashing?

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  • They serve to put in motion several thrashing and corn-mills, and a small one erected some years ago for spinning flax.

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  • Its not all superb new music, classic indie and rock tunes and thrashing about like salmon at clubs and gigs.

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  • The cabinet is still thrashing out the details of her alternative plan.

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  • We now get the usual thrashing about to explain away a discrepancy in the bible.

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  • Recent form has been better including a 5-1 thrashing of Mauritius and a 3-1 victory over Lesotho.

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  • An old naval expression meaning to be laid over a gun to receive a thrashing.

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  • The children's conkers took some thrashing too in their rounds, the overall winner for them being Joshua.

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  • Hence, the best way to avoid thrashing of the disk is to install plenty of RAM.

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  • I noticed a lot less hard disk thrashing when playing BF2 after I did this.

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  • Despite our regular thrashing of Churchill, the rest of the season turned out to be a bit of a disappointment.

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  • In many cases people claimed ' cold ' arm measurements when, in fact these had been taken after a twenty minute thrashing.

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  • You recognize the thrashing guitars of the intro, then Andrew begins the shouting, then everyone else does too.

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  • Biggleswade ran out of steam after the break, their mid-week thrashing at the hands of Wootton Blue Cross apparently taking its toll.

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  • It 's sort of Joy Division meets the Rolling Stones with some great thrashing guitars.

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  • Coventry City have won 4 of their last 5 away league matches including a 6 - 1 thrashing of local rivals Walsall.

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  • The game scores the singer on pitch and length of note, but bigger scores are accumulated through the awesome thrashing and pounding of the other players.

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  • Far from being destroyed by the competition of the " modern " factories, domestic industries have well maintained their ground, new branches of petty trade having sprung up in some districts, among them the manufacture of agricultural machinery (thrashing machines in Ryazan, Vyatka and Perm; ploughs in Smolensk, &c.) deserves notice.

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  • Experiencing a system slow-down or a ' thrashing ' hard disk drive?

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  • The panicked screaming, kicking, thrashing, and flailing is alarming in its intensity.

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  • Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail.

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