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How to use thrash in a sentence

29 example sentences · verb, noun

Thrash means to beat mercilessly. Example: “I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.”

Examples of thrash by meaning

verbTo beat mercilessly.

  • But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.1979 November 30, Roger Waters, “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”, in The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd

verbTo defeat utterly.

  • Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth.2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC

verbTo move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.

  • They want you to thrash it.2023, Britney Spears, The Woman in Me, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

nounA beat or blow; the sound of beating.

  • His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
  • As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.1934 May, Robert E. Howard, “Queen of the Black Coast”, in Weird Tales
  • It bounced twice on the waves, each time managing to free itself from the engulfing spray with vigorous thrashes of its one good wing.2016, Clark Nida, The Titan Kiss

nounThe roar and smoke of a particularly powerful diesel engine.

  • For the first time ever I will get to ride behind a class 37, a growler, nickname coined simply from the sound it makes, the epitome of thrash.2022 October 27, Francis Bourgeois, The Trainspotter's Notebook: The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation, Random House...

nounA wild party.

  • His housekeeper Maria, however, takes a very dim view of all his revellry, and finally after a particularly boisterous thrash she puts her foot down.1984, Software Projects, Jet Set Willy (video game's printed instructions)

More sentences with thrash

  • I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.From the entry us
  • They spent an afternoon on it, but thrashed out a solution in the end.From the entry thrash out
  • He was soundly thrashed by the semi-professional boxer.From the entry soundly
  • Manchester United shrugged off injuries to Phil Jones and Ashley Young to thrash a lifeless Fulham side.2011 December 21, Tom Rostance, “Fulham 0 - 5 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport. From the entry shrug off
  • The boat sped up my throat and I caught it in a weedy thrash of my hair.2001 03, Victoria Redel, Loverboy. From the entry uppy
  • The group would thrash out the problem of racial hostility, and any relevant problems.1969 April 30, "Loosening the Springs at Boca Ciega High" (editorial), St. Petersburg Times, p. 16A (retrieved 20 Feb 2013). From the entry encounter group
  • You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs.1913, Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC. From the entry something
  • This is the thrashingfloor, where the wheat is gathered to be thrashed.1912, Brigham Henry Roberts, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, page 324. From the entry thrashingfloor
  • Havok's vocalist has an incredibly powerful thrash scream and the drummer definitely knows his way around a kit.2015 November 20, ReapSoul964, “Time is Up – Havok”, in The Metal Archives, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2017, Quintessential…. From the entry blasturbate
  • Its tail thrashed wildly up and down.2005, Gideon Defoe, The Pirates!: in an adventure with Ahab, page 140. From the entry windmill
  • The jaws unscissor and the monster thrashes off in spirals.2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN. From the entry unscissor
  • Getting your butt thrashed by those curvaceous powdery paths?1999 March, “Hocus Pocus [X Games Pro Boarder PS: Thrashing Ollie B, All Circuits, and Mondo!]”, in Eric Mylonas, editor, GameFan: The…. From the entry weaksauce
  • Ex the primary sense, beat or thrash (a common shift).1994, Gordon Willams, A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, volumes I (A–F), London…. From the entry feague
  • On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip.1950, Wilhelm Stekel, Eden Paul, Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy. From the entry dogwhip
  • After 'Banglawashing' Pakistan, Bangladesh have now thrashed India to win their three-match One-Day International (ODI) series 2-0 with one match to go.2015 June 22, Sandipan Banerjee, “Bangladesh should now get the respect which they truly deserve”, in CricketCountry.com, archived from…. From the entry Banglawash
  • Louis' Anacrusis grew from a talented thrash outfit to one of the most highly respected progressive metal bands in the United States.2005, Joel McIver, Extreme Metal II, Music Sales Group, page 25. From the entry progressive metal
  • When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed.1974, Richard Garrett, General Gordon, page 203. From the entry roundly
  • After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘pecker’.1949, S. C. Murray, This Our Land: the Story of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, page 41. From the entry pecker
  • Keir Starmer has met Andy Burnham for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what sources said was a “frosty” meeting to thrash out a transition of power.2026 June 23, Pippa Crerar, “Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry frosty
  • Eating irons in hand, we plonked ourselves down at the round six-seating dining table and thrashed out the ethics of my decision to change football teams.2000, Shane Maloney, Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry eating irons
  • Rather, from Bridgman’s account of her early career Stein emerges as an elephantess in the china shop of literature: “Expending prodigious amounts of energy, Stein thrashed erratically toward innovation.”1986, Janice L. Doane, Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page xvii. From the entry elephantess

Meaning of thrash

  1. verb To beat mercilessly.
  2. verb To defeat utterly.
  3. verb To thresh.

Full definition of thrash

Questions about thrash in a sentence

How do you use thrash in a sentence?
Thrash is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.”
What is a short sentence with thrash?
“They want you to thrash it.”
What does thrash mean?
Thrash means to beat mercilessly.

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