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How to use keelhauling in a sentence

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Flogging, branding, keelhauling, locking sailors in chains, walking the plank, and hanging were used in this era.
Anderson dragged her into his office for a keelhauling and everyone went back to regular blowing.
This be an occasion for keelhauling, or swashbuckling, or whatever it is pirates do when they're happy.
That, in fact, is what they have become: neither snarling tyrants keelhauling miscreants, nor heroic helmsmen, but managers.
In our law I do not believe in keelhauling for this type of piracy, but I do believe in very strong penalties for it.
However, pirates did employ the brutal act of keelhauling as punishment for mutinous crew members.
And sunbathing on the deck would surely be a keelhauling offence.
Basescu, the former ship captain, appears intent on keelhauling his opponents, thwarting their attempts to have their favourite nominated for prime minister.
Punishment included forfeiture of pay and allowances, flogging, branding, keelhauling, confinement, solitary confinement with bread and water, and the death penalty.
Recalcitrants who violate the PC taboo are likely to be subjected to a media keelhauling and accused of intolerance, racism, bigotry, and insensitivity.
Malcolm Chisholm's reward for his deft touch with the nation's hospitals should be a keelhauling, but is actually a cushy berth below decks as communities minister.
Lashes at the grating, keelhauling, flogging around the fleet and so on.
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