Colloquial usage

Usage examples of whipping.

The commonest is known as the bastinado, which consists of removing the shoes of the victim and whipping the soles of his feet with a bamboo stick.

I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.

The air was a powerful physical presence, battering at her torso and face, whipping her hair, snatching the breath from her lungs.

He groped a little farther along the batture, and nearly put his hand on a four-foot snake that went whipping from beneath a downed tree.

Isabella, her dark hair whipping around her, whirled and swayed her body sensuously as she dance toward Burr, displaying every seductive curve of her body before his smiling gaze.

Nor did you see John Reddy in his leather jacket and jeans, longish hair whipping in the wind, out there joking with his buddies.

He and Tek chased across the high downs above the shore, wind whipping their manes and beards.

Fear was whipping inside him, the fear that he had mistimed this charge and that the enemy would have a volley ready just yards before the redcoats struck home, but he was committed now, and he ran as hard as he could to break into the white-coated ranks before the volley came.

She calls Ponto an imp of the devil, and that out of revenge for his merited whippings, he and his rightful master are determined to drag her down to hell, for which reason she struggles and beats them off.

So he dove into the cooking with great good humor, whipping up a batch of dinner omelets that had Mati and Prez cooing in admiration.

His pursy mouth gaped open, and instinctively his right hand made a slight whipping motion with the tails, which he instantly checked.

There were elementarii whipping hard at the frightened fire elementals, but that enraged them and some in passing snapped petulant and pyrotic at their handlers and burnt them to death.

He reamed and rodded into her, whipping her body into a frantic frenzy of desire.

The scherzo is the flickering of mad watery lights, a fantastic whipping dance, a sudden sinister conclusion.

The whipping loop missed Sheff and Hobgood because they happened to be to one side of it.