spanking

Example Sentences

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Sharon Schmeling, one of the couple’s children, said her father told her the surgery went well and that her mother had a “brand spanking new knee.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

The spanking the 49ers took could do that.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Look at the spanking new public buildings in Paris suburbs like Nanterre or Massy.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2023

She delivered sharp, spanking speeches to Iran, Russia and China at the United Nations for grown-ups?

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2023

As she’s all too fond of telling us, we are raising savages with all our new theories about talking, not spanking.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez