Words similar to punching

Example sentences for: punching

How can you use “punching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Dr. B's slapping, punching, beating, and shaming of students receive especially thorough attention, and Pollak even accuses him of sexually abusing several girls at the school.
Just about everyone else I know thinks it's odd, even "troubling" to see a serious presidential candidate run around punching people in the arm and giving nicknames to strangers.
Their arms got a good workout from the push-ups and punching; abs, from the sit-ups; and the lower body, from the kicking.
Most famously, Alec was arrested--and later acquitted--for allegedly punching a paparazzo and spraying shaving cream on the photographer's car windows.
No direct body-to-body contact, but plenty of punching and kicking with pads.