Example Sentences

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And it has a sense of humor, opening with a sidewalk preacher who flogs her Bible app.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025

Hawley's character are as outsized as ever, and the mythical Fahr-goh accent still flogs the ear – but the overwrought, flowery speeches that drowned the 2020 season aren’t as overwhelming.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023

Perhaps Malkovich’s best-known film is Being John Malkovich – the brilliant absurdist comedy in which a puppeteer discovers a portal into the actor’s head and then flogs tickets for it to the public.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2020

Avon flogs make-up and skin cream under its own brand.

From Economist • Apr. 4, 2012

Indeed, his theory ran parallel to the famous Yankee motto—'England flogs creation, and Manchester flogs England.'

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn