What is "lashed out"

Usage examples of "lashed out".

Instinctively he lashed out, his reflexes more than his conscious will keeping him above water in the wild rage of a storm-whipped sea.

A hurtling body slammed into my legs and bowled me over and when I was going down something else lashed out and struck me in the ribs.

From one or another of the confused and frightened normals crocodilian teeth lashed out whenever followers of a different Kessentai came in range.

Now she gained a mile and entered a more turbulent part of the ocean, where the full and mighty Pacific lashed out at her, and the timbers creaked and the masts swayed and Abner watched the whiskered face of Captain Janders, peering ahead, calculating the wind.

Then he lashed out at him with his silver fist, clubbing him over the head with his pistol, but Cudjo bore in, screaming a victory cry.

I rolled back toward him and lashed out with one hand, fingers clutching.

Instead of changing direction, she lashed out with an arc that exploded the base of the post into blazing splinters.

One muddy paw lashed out from the water, enfolded the dwarfs boot in a loving grip, and pulled.

The sword whistled beneath him, and his coiled legs lashed out to strike the man in the face with a thump that jarred up into the small of his back.

Giernas brought his right knee nearly back to his chest and lashed out, a heel kick that smashed into the soldier’.