: something used for binding, wrapping, or fastening
Examples of lashing in a Sentence
They gave the sailor a lashing.
She put lashings of butter on her muffin.
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The highly unreasonable lashing out with cuss words and nasty comments—verging on verbal abuse—highlights an unstable mind.
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
The script is by David Koepp (writer of the best Mission: Impossible, the 1996 Brian De Palma iteration), and it’s filled with shimmery red herrings and liberal lashings of phony-baloney techno-spy stuff.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Sort of like Mary Poppins, but with extra lashings of fragrant Orientalism.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
The speeches by two of the most senior members of the Trump Administration were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
The script is by David Koepp (writer of the best Mission: Impossible, the 1996 Brian De Palma iteration), and it’s filled with shimmery red herrings and liberal lashings of phony-baloney techno-spy stuff.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
Sort of like Mary Poppins, but with extra lashings of fragrant Orientalism.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
The speeches by two of the most senior members of the Trump Administration were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for lashing
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“Lashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lashing. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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lashing
noun
lash·ing
ˈlash-iŋ 
: something used for tying, wrapping, or fastening
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