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slapping

adjective as in hitting

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Example Sentences

His mother was standing near the door shouting his name, slapping her face very hard.

When she does, Jay Z appears to get upset before being shown slapping and shoving the woman in the face.

And slapping his hands together for emphasis adds, “There is no time to go back home.”

After the boys testified, they were seen exiting the courthouse smiling, chewing gum, and slapping their hands together.

At first he didn't get the joke, but then he was slapping his thigh, poking his finger at his photographer.

“Of course we know it, sir,” rejoined Fogg, slapping his pocket—perhaps by accident.

"My men and I have a devilish importunate creditor," said he, slapping his stomach.

“I knew it and I said it,” he muttered to himself, slapping one hard fist into the palm of the other hand.

I hadn't thought of burros—me on one of 'em—slapping with my hat to get two miles to the gallon!

Marie-Louise and Philippe-Auguste, who had just come in from the gutter, were slapping each other all the way upstairs.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slapping, such as: beating, null, null, punishing, slamming, and smacking.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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