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Drubbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Drub

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
  • (2) Brown spoke out after seven cabinet attendees quit government and Labour suffered a drubbing in the local elections.
  • (3) It's the drubbing he's received from sections of the British press for The Wind That Shakes the Barley, his Palme d'Or-winning film about the Irish war of independence, starring Cillian Murphy.
  • (4) The British men have been through an "I get knocked down but I get up again" tournament, coming back miraculously on a couple of occasions – including in an earlier match against the Aussies – to make it out of the group before suffering a proper drubbing in the semi-final, 9-2 against the brilliant orange Dutch.
  • (5) However, a 4-0 drubbing at home to Bournemouth on the opening day of the campaign led to the manager and his players being jeered by fans.
  • (6) Despite England's Ashes drubbing by the Australians, Test Match Special, which airs on Radio 4 long wave and the digital station 5 Live Sports Extra, accounted for 19 of the top 20 requested radio shows.
  • (7) Philippe Coutinho’s brilliantly taken winner, struck from fully 30 yards, will not expel the memories of that 6-1 drubbing when Steven Gerrard’s final match for the club turned into the kind of harrowing ordeal a man with his history could scarcely have thought plausible.
  • (8) What's certain, though, is that nothing could have been worse than keeping the spineless Ayrault at his side after last weekend's drubbing at the local elections and the loss of 175 municipalities.
  • (9) A bath” – for the uninitiated – is a Spanish way of saying a drubbing, or a whitewash; a real beating.
  • (10) Wenger lamented again how the campaign had been scarred by the high-profile away-day drubbings, most gruesomely the 6-0 at Stamford Bridge, which reignited all of those questions about Arsenal's knowhow.
  • (11) The turnaround was even more amazing given that Scotland had won the previous year's match 7-2, a score that remained England's worst drubbing until they popped over to Budapest in 1954 for their 7-1 humiliation at the hands of the Hungarians.
  • (12) A training ground set-to following September’s drubbing by Celtic led to a classic Barton apology, laced with the qualifier: “I cannot apologise for caring deeply about winning.” His suspension, then his departure, followed swiftly.
  • (13) Look at the history of byelections throughout the ages - midterm governments tend to get a drubbing".
  • (14) They also show that entrapment in liposomes can reduce metabolic degradation of a drub, maintain high plasma levels and reduce its renal excretion.
  • (15) There are three separate satirical programmes on Geo, the country’s biggest and most watched independent television channel, where politicians come in for a regular drubbing.
  • (16) However, the serotonin depleting drub para-chlorophenylalanine produced a marked increase in decremental bar pressing compared to saline-injected controls.
  • (17) I'm tempted as I think Liverpool might bottle it against Newcastle, Chelsea should see off an awful Cardiff team and even though plucky little City will probably get a drubbing against Big Sam's claret and blue army they'll still finish first.
  • (18) Walker’s last appearance at Stamford Bridge was the 4-0 drubbing in March 2014 , after which the Spurs manager at the time, Tim Sherwood, questioned the character of his players .
  • (19) They had fluffed their lines in the 4-0 Boxing Day drubbing at Southampton but there was reassurance here against a Bournemouth team that looked tidy enough but lacked ruthlessness at both ends.
  • (20) For Cook, considering another drubbing by the analysts, that might have to do.

Dubbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dub

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (2) Last week at a press conference Putin defended the legislation as an appropriate response to the Magnitsky Act, which he dubbed an "anti-Russian" law.
  • (3) The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative.
  • (4) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
  • (5) Dubbed France's MP for London, Lemaire represents one of the largest populations of French nationals outside France .
  • (6) DUB diagnosis requires careful exclusion of organic pathology through a detailed history, complete physical examination, and a complete blood count.
  • (7) In 2014, they seized on Osborne’s declaration of a “northern powerhouse” to promote One North, a plan for a £15bn network, dubbed HS3, between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
  • (8) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
  • (9) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
  • (10) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
  • (11) The prime minister will announce that £400m from dormant bank accounts will be used to help finance the scheme, dubbed Big Society Capital.
  • (12) Calais's youths: the unaccompanied minors left in political limbo Read more Dubs, who was saved from the Nazis and brought to London in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport programme, has led a parliamentary campaign to take in youngsters from camps near Calais and elsewhere in Europe who, he says, are hugely vulnerable to exploitation, sexual violence and disease.
  • (13) The incident – dubbed by protesters the “137”, after the number of shots that were fired at the victims’ car – became a cause célèbre.
  • (14) Some within the party have dubbed it the government's "poll tax", the policy that proved so damaging to Margaret Thatcher's last government.
  • (15) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
  • (16) This was dubbed a "death tax" by the Tories, prompting the collapse of all-party talks.
  • (17) The proposals had prompted an outcry among Tory backbenchers and were dubbed a "conservatory tax".
  • (18) He suggested that the intelligence agencies were suffering because of the failure, largely due to Liberal Democrat opposition, to give them more powers in what is dubbed a “snoopers’ charter”.
  • (19) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
  • (20) But it may not have been coincidence that two months later, Farage was being feted by Murdoch’s the Times, which dubbed the controversial leader “Man of the Moment” .

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