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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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.
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John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
This isn’t the first time Drake has had to come back from a rap battle shellacking.
—Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Interestingly, the third least-exciting Super Bowl since Y2K was also a beatdown of Patrick Mahomes, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ defensive line ran him in circles for 60 straight minutes en route to a 31-9 shellacking.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Its first exclusive playoff contest—a Ravens 28-14 shellacking of the Steelers—garnered 22.1 million average viewers, with a peak of 24.7 million tuned in.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
This isn’t the first time Drake has had to come back from a rap battle shellacking.
—Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Interestingly, the third least-exciting Super Bowl since Y2K was also a beatdown of Patrick Mahomes, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ defensive line ran him in circles for 60 straight minutes en route to a 31-9 shellacking.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Its first exclusive playoff contest—a Ravens 28-14 shellacking of the Steelers—garnered 22.1 million average viewers, with a peak of 24.7 million tuned in.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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“Shellacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shellacking. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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