Example sentences for: slap

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

  • In La Repubblica of Rome, columnist Bernardo Valli said the achievement of the Austrian Freedom Party in getting more than 27 percent of the vote in the general election was "a slap in the face" for Europe.

  • Then roll up your sleeve, tie your arm off with a mouse cord, slap your vein into view, and shoot this site up.

  • But to have a gentle black giant hang his head and say "Yes, Boss," while almost every guard in a Louisiana prison circa 1935 is portrayed as a forward-thinking, tolerant humanist is the biggest backhanded slap I've seen in a studio movie in a long time.

  • Instead, when it comes to particulars, we have everybody quoting the comment of a woman whose Secret Service agent husband was killed in the Oklahoma blast: "It was a slap in the face."

  • "If you say, Well, it would make me miserable, make my wife cry, but it has no innuendo, no unattributed pejorative remarks, no slap in the face for joy of slapping, it is news, not gutter gossip, and as a reporter I know the writer was fair, then give it to the copy desk."


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