Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: lashes
IPA transcription: [l'æʃɪz]
Usage examples
  • She looked down at the fruit on her plate and shot a side-glance through her lashes at Mrs. Peter Van Degen.
  • I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
  • They are children of Nature, and occasionally she whips them with the lashes of experience, yet they are forgetful and careless.
  • Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones.
  • She moved her arm slightly from before her eyes so that she could see, and looked cautiously from under thick lashes, screened by the sleeve of her coat.
  • A rosy-cheeked square-set little figure she was, and her brown eyes, fringed with long black lashes, looked straight at Teddy with something of defiance and scorn in their glance.
  • If the trail could have told tales, there would have been many a story of dead men washed up on the bars, of sneak-thieves given thirty-nine lashes and like the scapegoat turned out into the mountain wilds--a rough-and-ready justice administered without judge or jury.