He was now passing the verbal beating he'd received to those under him.

The young Russian clenched his fists at his sides and resigned himself to the verbal beating.

Through the centuries poor Hermia has always taken a verbal beating for her physique, but here it has a different bite.

Had the verbal beating from the Duchess hit him harder than I had thought?

He was giving her a verbal beating with the words, "It's cheap, Mama.

Mr. Harries took a verbal beating from parents, furious at what they said were broken promises from the department to update a science laboratory and other facilities.

Both my mother and Gran looked very sad, which was not unusual after the verbal beating we received each week from Brother Akers.

From her place beside the window, Ruth gloated over the blonde's present plight, and Lorna had to take the verbal beating.

"It was one of the most unbelievable verbal beatings that any candidate has ever experienced."

The Basques take verbal beating too, for in Spain una basqueria is 'a Basque [a dirty trick].'