How to Use ass in a Sentence

ass

noun
  • But love can also be a blow to the ego, a punch to the gut, and a pain in the ass.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
  • My road in the NBA has been ass for the most part, with bright spots here and there.
    Dallas News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But the big ass pads, the leg pads, the thigh pads, the calf pads, those were all playing.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
  • But look, there’s a time to party your ass off, and there’s a time to stop.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2023
  • Dancers shook their asses on the main stage and in pole pits strewn with cash.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The single big-ass lens occupies the top third of the phone.
    WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Can't wait to see you on the other side of you kicking this thing's ass.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • In ancient Egypt, the ass was one of the sacred animals of Seth, the Lord of Chaos.
    Franz Lidz Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • My hands freely roamed his body but always made their way back to his ass.
    Zachary Zane, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2023
  • So, in both the United States and England, Murdoch’s ass is on the hot seat in a huge way.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Didn’t get drafted, was hurt his senior year, had to fight his ass off in the G League.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2024
  • It's meant to be able to kick ass at Lightning Lap; R is for Racetrack.
    Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 19 June 2023
  • Butts can fumble and asses get whooped, but a pushed tush can earn you a first-and-ten.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Ross and Yin Yang survive the attack and Jensen gets his ass handed to him.
    Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
  • All my dogs that worked for me put their ass in position.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The fight tells so much story as well, because Lena just kicks Ria’s ass.
    Vulture, 3 May 2023
  • But Michael Darby had six long seasons to grab ass and cheat on his wife.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Where taking your dead ass home would have blood and feathers on it.
    Bart Bull, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And for Luis, Julio is a whiny pain in the ass who just might pester him into getting his life back on track.
    Time, 28 July 2023
  • These guys save my ass all the time and play really hard each and every day.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Negroes, the state is not going to protect your Black ass.
    Vulture, 11 June 2023
  • Mac was too much of a hard-ass to have any friends in Bravo Company.
    Ben Kesling, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • These movies, one is reminded, like the view up their own asses.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, his energy kind of kicked us in our asses a little bit.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 Dec. 2023
  • True, that is a big ass piece of salad but even that doesn't mar your legendary beauty.
    Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
  • During the four days of Carnaval, my ass was out, my belly was out, and, at some points, even my boobs were out.
    Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • This is a celebration of a bad ass black girl from the westside of Atlanta.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Apparently, that guy's ass doesn't look like mine, my wife wanted to let the world know.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 May 2023
  • And Ariana chimes in to take a dig at Sandoval’s two-timing ass.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • Public ass grabbing, on the other hand, is back—for better or for worse.
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2024

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