smacking

Example Sentences

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Selecting Isak ahead of him lacked logic, smacking of a manager groping for answers, almost trying to get an expensive signing to play himself into the team.

From BBC

The venik is an Eastern European "massage" which involves someone smacking you with a wet broom made of leaves and branches.

From Salon

Assuming an avuncular tone, the elder crow apologizes for smacking you on your noggin before going on to explain that it, too, used to work as a reaper.

From Washington Post

“His fragrances hit you here,” said Juan Carlos Moreno, an amateur perfume maker, smacking his chest hard.

From New York Times

Indeed, Khyzhniak had spent the fight’s first 7 1/2 minutes smacking Sousa around the ring with his vicious combination of power and accuracy.

From Seattle Times