Example sentences for: slap

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

  • "This is a real slap at the House prosecutors," declared CBS correspondent Bob Schieffer, echoing colleagues on other networks.

  • One sidebar wonders why Gates doesn't mention the antitrust trial in his new book and urges Microsoft employees to "slap their boss with a digital reality check."

  • Little wonder that foreign-born Israelis, especially those who were taught old-world manners, soon learn to parrot another abbreviated sabra expression: they describe the offender as having a Padas Pa(rtsuf) d(oresh) s(tira) a face that invites a slap.

  • (A slap on the wrist here to William Rose Benét's The Reader's Encyclopedia and Kenneth McLeish's Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide, which respectively give the latter misspellings.)

  • When asked why he and teammates had invented this elevated palm slap, Smith replied, "We decided to be a little odd."


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