smacking

Example Sentences

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The first thing she does in the morning is give her phone 30 vigorous shakes, smacking it with one hand into the palm of the other.

From The Wall Street Journal

Camille twists to face me, her shiny brown ponytail smacking against the window.

From Literature

He slings his backpack over his shoulder so hard that it makes a smacking sound.

From Literature

I had to draw up short to keep from smacking right into her.

From Literature

A mother-of-two says she is "baffled" that smacking a child was ever legal in Wales, nearly three years on from a ban being introduced.

From BBC