: 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 way that today’s politics works, that should have earned me a lashing on social media.
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Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
As the Epstein scandal has heated up again, though, he’s also been on the receiving end of MAGA lashings from supporters who want to see the tapes go public.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
This isn’t a repeat of Hurricane Irma’s lashing at the concrete marker that led to a month-long closing in September and October 2017 so that the original artists Danny Acosta and Henry Del Valle could do emergency repairs and repaint the battered buoy.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
However, May argued that Trump’s recent public lashings out against Putin appear to be more lasting than those against Zelensky, signaling a wider shift in policy.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025
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Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
As the Epstein scandal has heated up again, though, he’s also been on the receiving end of MAGA lashings from supporters who want to see the tapes go public.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
This isn’t a repeat of Hurricane Irma’s lashing at the concrete marker that led to a month-long closing in September and October 2017 so that the original artists Danny Acosta and Henry Del Valle could do emergency repairs and repaint the battered buoy.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
However, May argued that Trump’s recent public lashings out against Putin appear to be more lasting than those against Zelensky, signaling a wider shift in policy.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025
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“Lashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lashing. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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lashing
noun
lash·ing
ˈlash-iŋ 
: something used for tying, wrapping, or fastening
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