(1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(2) After a fairly competitive first set, it turned into a rout almost on the scale of the triple-bagle thrashing the Scot gave the Luxembourg part-timer Laurent Bram when he returned to Davis Cup action in Glasgow four years ago.
(3) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
(4) Yet this was actually City’s second 4-1 beating in their last six league games, following on from the game at Tottenham Hotspur on 26 September, and it finished with their heaviest home defeat since a 5-1 thrashing against Arsenal at Maine Road in February 2003.
(5) So new newspaper enemies turn against the BBC, thrashing around for someone to blame for the danger newspapers are in.
(6) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".
(7) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(8) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(9) Courtney Love recently had some of the SuicideGirls on her MTV special, while 70 of them featured in the video for the latest offering from Dave Grohl's thrash metal side-project, Probot.
(10) During talks to thrash out his reform package on Wednesday, treasury minister Giulio Tremonti reportedly told Berlusconi that he was Italy's real problem.
(11) Previously it only had to move refugees towards Macedonia; now it has to address their cases directly, and potentially house them for days or weeks while logistics with Turkey are thrashed out.
(12) Some analysts interpreted the Kenyan atrocity as a sign of weakness, the thrashings of a dying animal.
(13) At the inaugural meeting of the Human Brain Project earlier this month, researchers from more than 80 European institutions converged on the Lausanne campus to thrash out who would contribute to what platform.
(14) Arsenal will be Everton’s opponents in Saturday night’s final after they thrashed a Singapore XI 4-0 .
(15) Details of the property tax and water rates have also been thrashed out with the IMF, which is in favour of restricting extra income taxes in favour of higher taxes on consumption and wealth Mass meetings in Dublin have drawn protesters from across the country and several prominent members of the Irish and European parliaments.
(16) They leave the Tories relieved, Labour saying it could have been worse, Ukip alive if going nowhere and the Liberal Democrats barely out of their concussion from last year’s election thrashing.
(17) I don’t think he got a fair trial, but that is something we will have to thrash out at appeal,” Robinson told the Guardian, after giving a seminar on the case to law students at Nottingham University on Thursday night.
(18) There’s a lot we can take from them.” For now, all they have to show for brushes with Spurs is a pair of sound thrashings, and eight goals shipped en route, and it has been Kane who has revelled in the fixture most of all.
(19) I had seen the intriguingly named Millbrook Proving Ground on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson et al thrashed some trucks around its 45 miles of twisty track.
(20) BAE and EADS are working to a deadline of 10 October deadline to thrash out a deal.
Whack
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
(v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.
(n.) A smart resounding blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, a huge whack of his income comes from Rupert Murdoch.
(2) The cold, hard political calculation is that it makes more sense for the coalition to hit the poorest and weakest – by making swingeing cuts to welfare – than to whack the middle class or the powerful.
(3) If you are on the back end you are kind of playing whack-a-mole, trying to pick this up,” one source said.
(4) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
(5) There is a difference between grabbing a bedside lamp and whacking an intruder because you are worried about the children and hitting someone and then stabbing them 17 times," one source said.
(6) "The NSA has a slogan internally — 'we track 'em, you whack 'em' – where they help to target drone strikes."
(7) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(8) It was the happiest Luke Shaw had ever been to take a whack from one of his team-mates.
(9) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
(10) Compare that with a sale price (including downloads) of $630 and Apple makes $452 on each phone: a whacking gross margin of 72%.
(11) But not past the always reliable Cole, who whacks it out for a corner.
(12) Fletcher had the image within a week, and the first thing he noticed was something that had been speculated to exist – “this whacking great canal coming down from the north”.
(13) The huge signs advertising a collapse in prices are already stacked in department stores’ stockrooms as the final spasm of Christmas Eve top-whack spending is taking place.
(14) He whacks the shields of policemen who earn less in a year than a banker does in a day.
(15) Historically, sadly, we never had a cost-control culture, they were out of whack.” Flybe has signed a five-year deal at City.
(16) Whacking the bankers directly and visibly – ensuring they pay back what they cost the rest of us – might have struck the right populist chord too.
(17) I remember an interview where he says he took great delight in whacking the opposing players whenever he had the chance."
(18) But ultimately, it’s human emissions that have thrown a pretty finely-tuned system out of whack.
(19) Instead, Ignatieff got whacked, and the left-leaning New Democratic party did very well indeed, astonishing even themselves.
(20) 9.11pm BST 67 min: Isco has a whack at the Atlético goal through a thicket of legs from the right-hand side of the D, but drags his effort well wide left.