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Shellacking meaning

present participle and gerund of shellac

Using Shellacking

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of shellac
  • In the example corpus, shellacking often appears in combinations such as: shellacking in, shellacking of, shellacking on.

Context around Shellacking

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Shellacking

  • In this selection, "shellacking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, card, box, run and last stand out and add context to how "shellacking" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 29 point shellacking to those and 38 3 shellacking last week. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "shellacking" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with shellacking

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

A wild-card shellacking in Buffalo that followed a 10-7 regular season. (13 words)

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s reelection triumph could reasonably be described as a shellacking. (16 words)

The ‘Cats had suffered a 29-point shellacking to those same Bobcats just six days earlier. (16 words)

In his final 10 starts, the veteran right-hander posted a 2.25 ERA while averaging six innings per outing — even with a seven-run shellacking at the hands of the Boston Red Sox on Sept. 14 factoring into the stat line. (42 words)

His emphasis on housing underscores by lawmakers and Polis to boost Colorado’s housing supply after a failed attempt at comprehensive land-use reform last year and, in the fall, the ballot box shellacking of Proposition HH. (37 words)

Perhaps it’s just franchise fatigue finally setting in, as in the case of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has taken a shellacking from critics, but is it actually worse than Thor: Love and ThunderDr. (36 words)

Could that be a big part of the reason why they delivered a shellacking on the siting PNC-led Government at the recently held Local Government Elactions? (27 words)

Example sentences (18)

A 4-1 shellacking on Tyneside wasn’t proof they will continue, but it was an indication it might.

A wild-card shellacking in Buffalo that followed a 10-7 regular season.

Eight of those completions were to Harrison, who finished with 156 yards in the 62-13 shellacking of Central York.

Perhaps it’s just franchise fatigue finally setting in, as in the case of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has taken a shellacking from critics, but is it actually worse than Thor: Love and ThunderDr.

His emphasis on housing underscores by lawmakers and Polis to boost Colorado’s housing supply after a failed attempt at comprehensive land-use reform last year and, in the fall, the ballot box shellacking of Proposition HH.

In his final 10 starts, the veteran right-hander posted a 2.25 ERA while averaging six innings per outing — even with a seven-run shellacking at the hands of the Boston Red Sox on Sept. 14 factoring into the stat line.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s reelection triumph could reasonably be described as a shellacking.

The first quarter was a defensive shellacking by the Bombers, who held the Golden Knights scoreless for the first seven minutes of the game.

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He provided immense coattails for Coach Tommy Tuberville who beat our-anomaly, liberal, two-year-tenured Democratic Senator Doug Jones by an amazing 60-to-40 shellacking.

He’s been no Johnny Manziel, or even Kenny Hill (the architect of a 52-28 shellacking in 2014), but he’s been more than enough.

It was a rough start to the weekend for the Buccaneers, who are looking to bounce back from a 38-3 shellacking last week at the hands of the New Orleans Saints.

Matutu threw the cat among the pigeons when he poisonously said Chamisa would receive a heavy shellacking from Mwonzora at the May congress, because “he did not have support in the MDC party structures”.

Since then, though, they went 2-5, which included four losses to teams outside the field and Thursday night's 86-54 shellacking against Marquette.

The ‘Cats had suffered a 29-point shellacking to those same Bobcats just six days earlier.

Then came the 2010 midterms: In what Obama called a “shellacking,” the Republicans picked up 63 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

They continued generating pressure at a high clip in their Divisional Round shellacking of the Colts, bringing down star quarterback Andrew Luck three times.

Could that be a big part of the reason why they delivered a shellacking on the siting PNC-led Government at the recently held Local Government Elactions?

The Bucs took a narrow loss in Game 1 and responded in the nightcap with a shellacking of the Falcons.

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Common combinations with shellacking

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Shellacking means: present participle and gerund of shellac
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