Words similar to slapping
Example sentences for: slapping
How can you use “slapping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Try slapping a sticker on the conductor's ass, and he'll toss you right off your overcrowded, overheated, way-behind-schedule railroad.
They conjure up a flip-flop-clad matron in a housedress, cigarette dangling from her mouth, slapping a metal tray in front of a sullen husband at the dinner table.
"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."
Scalia, notes the Times , went on to claim that the decision does not abrogate all "genuine but innocuous differences in the ways men and women routinely interact with members of the same sex and of the opposite sex," and all the papers give his example: a football coach slapping a player's rear on the way to the field would be lawful, while the same gesture directed at the coach's (female or male) secretary might not be.
Under pressure from President Clinton, the leading theater trade association says it will now bar the under-17 crowd from R-rated movies; rumors have it that the MPAA will be stricter about slapping R ratings onto violent movies; Disney plans to stop featuring guns in its marketing materials; and studios have canceled the development of some teen horror movies.