spanking

Example Sentences

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“When we’re launching a new movie like this, any time it’s brand spanking new, it takes a little more work to get retailers excited,” Lee said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

As a parent, it was important to April that she did things differently than her own father, and although spanking was commonplace in the 1990s, April never laid a hand on Hunter.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2024

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

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