Lashing

//ˈlæʃɪŋ//

"Lashing" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The rain was lashing against the windows.

They made a raft by lashing pieces of driftwood together with vines.

This child is likely lashing out because his father went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back.

Tom received a tongue lashing.

It's lashing.

Many a night she stood by the open windows and looked up through the dark blue water which the fish were lashing with their tails and fins.

The sea's waves are lashing against the rocks on the shore.

The thunder's rumbling, and it's lashing down.

The rain was lashing down.

She gave him a tongue lashing.

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The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.

the lashings out of his luxur

[It] came from the sea, that wind, and soon enough, it would bring lashings of rain. The captain opened the door just as the first patters of rain began to fall.

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”

You bring happiness to my heart Like a freshly baked apple tart With lashings of piping-hot custard

the rain was lashing down

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