bastinades Sentence Examples
- The military leader ordered bastinades, a severe beating, for the deserters.
- The ruthless ruler wielded bastinades to quell any sign of dissent.
- The slave master employed bastinades as a cruel and inhumane form of punishment.
- The prisoners endured excruciating pain as they were subjected to relentless bastinades.
- The faint sound of bastinades striking flesh echoed through the desolate prison yard.
- The townspeople condemned the use of bastinades as a barbaric and pointless practice.
- The scars of bastinades marred the bodies of those who had suffered under such torture.
- The abolitionists denounced bastinades as a vile and degrading form of corporal punishment.
- Historians recorded the horrors of bastinades, a testament to the brutality of past eras.
- The oppressive regime's use of bastinades cast a shadow of fear over the populace.
bastinades Meaning
bastinades
a blow with a stick or cudgel, to subject to repeated blows, stick, cudgel, a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick, a beating especially with a stick
Synonyms & Antonyms of bastinades
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a blow with a stick or cudgel, to subject to repeated blows, stick, cudgel, a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick, a beating esp
batons, canes, waddies, shillalahs, billy clubs, staves, clubs, truncheons, rods, saps
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The military leader ordered bastinades, a severe beating, for the deserters.
The ruthless ruler wielded bastinades to quell any sign of dissent.
The slave master employed bastinades as a cruel and inhumane form of punishment.
The prisoners endured excruciating pain as they were subjected to relentless bastinades.
