Examples of scourged

• Much of the courtyard pavement survives in the Monastery of the Flagellation, where Jesus Christ was scourged.

• The king was filled with guilt for his murder and in 1174 came to Canterbury to be scourged at Becket's tomb by the 80 monks of the Cathedral's Abbey.

• At that time the insane were frequently tortured and scourged.

• When alone, he would pray still more. He would scourge himself, keep midnight vigils, wear the rough hair shirt.

• I hope and believe that it has completely scourged any complacency about health and safety at work.

• The encyclopedia describes this as the name given to those who scourge themselves or are scourged by way of discipline or penance.

• I should like to see the number of men they have scourged to come down— the number of men who have got what is called stiff pairs.

• The region is being scourged for months by the sorcerers, even if the precedent year eleven people were burned alive in a sorcery trial.

• And the dark forces shall be scourged, the cities razed and made into parks.

• His devotion became very severe: seven times a day he scourged himself, drawing blood.

• During filming, he was struck by lightning, accidentally scourged, dislocated his shoulder, and suffered from pneumonia and hypothermia.

• He who fulfils not, obeys not, shall be condemned to swim three hours and, for the second time, shall be scourged with spines to death.

• As punishment for his brash action, he is hit with a shield and then is scourged and imprisoned (sentenced to die in the arena).

• But, above all, it is a story about the most scourged term in modern times: marriage.

• They were imprisoned and scourged.