Examples of shellacking in a Sentence
They took a shellacking in yesterday's game.
suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition
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Utah has suffered three blowout losses over the last week and a half: a 7-1 shellacking against the Oilers, a 5-1 home ice defeat to the slumping Red Wings and an embarrassing 8-0 defeat against the Lightning on Thursday.
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James Mirtle, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Per Nielsen, viewers who watched the Eagles’ shellacking of the Chiefs on Tubi were 38% more likely to be members of the coveted adults 18-34 demo than the total-game average.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2025
But the Russian-speaking nightclub background actors lapped up Aleksei's Slavic shellacking.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
The ultimatum came two days after Trump’s reelection and just a week before a tumultuous vote in which the City Council gave Johnson a 50-0 shellacking on his proposal to raise property taxes.
—John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
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James Mirtle, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Per Nielsen, viewers who watched the Eagles’ shellacking of the Chiefs on Tubi were 38% more likely to be members of the coveted adults 18-34 demo than the total-game average.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2025
But the Russian-speaking nightclub background actors lapped up Aleksei's Slavic shellacking.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
The ultimatum came two days after Trump’s reelection and just a week before a tumultuous vote in which the City Council gave Johnson a 50-0 shellacking on his proposal to raise property taxes.
—John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Shellacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shellacking. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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