How to Use slap in a Sentence

slap

1 of 2 verb

• She slapped him across the face.
• Gentle waves slapped the side of the raft.
• Waves were slapping against the side of the boat.
• He called the dog by slapping his hand against his thigh.
• He slapped me on the back and said “Good job!”.
• The next day, my mother brought me over to the main bully and slapped my face in front of her.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
• The inspector slapped all that ice with a Stop Sale just like the Stop Sale put on the roach’s life.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2024
• The man who slapped his name on buildings around the world seems to be above putting it on his own shirt.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• Or that Chris Rock, whom Will slapped at the Oscars last year, once asked her out.
  — Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
• Will Smith took issue with the joke and slapped Rock onstage.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Rose slapped Jones’ hand at one point and that’s when the team member got involved.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Bug bites seem to be the universe’s way of slapping us on the wrist for our trivial wrongs.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023
• Those makers then yank the motor out, slap a battery in, and call it a day.
  — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Liberty would slap her hand on their way onto the floor.
  — Emma Carmichael, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Will reacted by taking to the stage and slapping Rock across the face.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• The whales then slap the water (and the fish) with their powerful tails, further disabling the prey.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• Seconds later, Will Smith strode up to the stage and slapped Rock across the face hard enough to make the other man stumble.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2023
• This is the second ethics violation the state has slapped a councilor with the past month.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• And a tank crew seen grabbing a quick lunch last year had slapped a World of Tanks logo on the hull of its T-80 main battle tank.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Teammates are high-fiving him, fist-pumping him and slapping his back in the Cubs dugout.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• Gobin then grabbed her crotch over her shorts and the plaintiff, who was nearby, slapped it away, the woman and the plaintiff said.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• On Wednesday afternoon, a woman slapped the leg of a man falling to his side on the curb of Southampton Street.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• Top with more crushed ice and garnish with a couple mint sprigs, slapped to release their aromas.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2023
• Lazaro-Castillo slapped the child on the leg and continued assaulting his wife.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• Singer Ava Max was slapped by a concertgoer on June 20.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
• That same month, pop singer Ava Max was slapped by an audience member.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
• Durant and Westbrook slapped hands and put an arm around each other, the moment cordial and quick.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• On the ensuing point, Alcaraz slapped a return winner, evening the match.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• As the team roared to the tunnel, legendary Aztecs coach Steve Fisher slapped hands with the trailblazers sprinting past.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Caught near the bottom of the celebratory dog pile, the outside hitter from Phoenix slapped the ground with his hand with Robinson’s arm wrapped around his neck.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024

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slap

2 of 2 noun

• Feel the cool, clean slap of the wind against your face.
  — Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Its shock to the body is matched with a spiteful slap to the eardrum.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
• Treat feedback as a gift rather than as a slap in the face.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• That’s four slaps right in the middle of the church parking lot.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The message came as a slap in the face to some residents.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• His rivals have skipped right past the open-palm slap and moved right to the sucker punch.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• On the road, Rock has often worked in jokes and reflections on the slap.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
• But Phoenix and Kirby would go off script in the moment, which was the case during the slap scene.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 31 July 2023
• Not having that title for his wife was a slap in his face.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
• David responds to her with a vicious slap that knocks her out of her chair.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Chinese agency let Luckin off with a wrist slap: a fine of just $9 million.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 22 May 2022
• Evander was rushing to set up a free kick for the Timbers when the slap occurred.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2023
• Kimmel didn't restrict his slap jokes just to the monologue.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Not getting rewarded for that was a real slap in the face for me.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• Sadly, Matt Damon did not rush the stage to mock-slap Kimmel.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
• One of the big questions going into the night was: How will Kimmel deal with last year’s slap episode?
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• But for untold millions, a show-off staircase is a slap.
  — Curbed, 19 July 2023
• To some people grieving losses from Covid-19, the notion that Congress may fail to act feels like a slap in the face.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Other effects include the whine of a mouth organ and slaps of piano and harp strings.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• When Jackson headed to the sideline with a large grin on his face, there were hand slaps from teammates to go around.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
• Courtesy of Devolver Digital Over by the pool, a slap fight breaks out.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024
• Then the covid-19 crisis hit and propelled the recall effort to oust him from office — and the wake-up call was met with a slap of the snooze button.
  — Angela Hart and Samantha Young, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
• Chris Rock didn't stay home on the first anniversary of the infamous Oscars slap.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• The elephant in the room, of course, was last year’s slap, which gave the ceremony the kind of attention that the Academy didn’t want.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• And, of course, there were one too many (ie: anything more than zero) jokes about last year’s slap incident.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• On the road, he's often worked in jokes and reflections on the slap, though it’s never been more than an element.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Others however see Qatar hosting the event as a slap in the face for human rights activists.
  — Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• Paul took the bait, and a brief slap fight ensued before the fighters were forcibly separated.
  — Rafi Kohan, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• Like, with Will Smith’s slap, everybody wanted to pass judgment on that.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Oct. 2022
• Paxton, the attorney general from Texas, once again bought his way out of legal troubles without so much as a hand slap.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024