have a whack

Example Sentences

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Joe said, “Hey, man, that’s a pretty nice-sounding guitar, lemme have a whack at it.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

"You fetch home reports like that, and you'n me will have a whack at Old Yellowfoot sure after we're done with the grouse."

From The Black Fawn by Kjelgaard, James Arthur

"The Austrians will have a whack at us before that," said Hal positively.

From The Boy Allies in Great Peril Or, With the Italian Army in the Alps by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)

"Just you let me have a whack at 'em!"

From Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun by Hawley, Mabel C.

However, several people had been saying that Stigler had got me "on the run," so I decided it was up to me to have a whack at him.

From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold