How to Use smack in a Sentence

smack

1 of 3 noun

• Some of the struts give easily, with just the smack of a hand.
  — Anthony Haden-Guest, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• Kyle Bradish skipped over the first base line and gave his glove a hard smack.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2022
• The post-whistle stuff happened all game, as did the big smacks.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• If the message sent by the Lakers was a tap on the shoulders, the one sent by the Warriors is a smack in the face.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2021
• The stillness of Saturday morning is a smack to the face.
  — Tom Noie, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2020
• Even cooler, there’s a stretch of sand smack dab in the middle of one of the lakes that’s complete with a fire pit.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
• The Port, as locals call it, is just over nine square miles, with the post office smack in the middle.
  — Kate Storey, Town & Country, 13 June 2023
• His best pop of the night was an open-ice smack on Anton Lundell in the third that set off some sparks.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• A little harsh, maybe, but Georgia earned the right to talk any smack after a 65-7 blowout.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• Well, that was an offseason, even with the 99-day lockout smack in the middle.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2022
• Even without the smack, the broadcast would have been a disaster.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• How no kid just went bounce [smack motion] is beyond me.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
• The railway departs from Milford, New York — a quaint little town smack dab in the middle of the state.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• Stephens suddenly found that his acreage was smack dab in the best place in the world to apply these new techniques.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Leading up to this third bout, Wilder and Fury have been whipping up some colossal smack.
  — Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• Every so often, a thunderous smack echoed from the grass in front of them, louder than the rest.
  — oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2023
• Wes gets a good hit on Yes' face, and as the elimination continues, Yes starts to talk a lot of smack to Wes.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 1 June 2022
• Below deck is a cabin complete with beds, lights, and a toilet smack dab in the middle.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• Over the past 100 years, Americans went from being some of the tallest people in the world to ranking somewhere smack in the middle.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 7 Jan. 2024
• But at around 10 p.m., all eyes were on a stage smack in the middle of the city’s Broadway entertainment district.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• At first, Jenkins was indignant, even dishing back some smack to the thugs who were standing in front of her car.
  — Jon Tevlin, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• The crowd collectively gasps as the camera hits the stage with an audible smack.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• For another bright eye-dea, try L'Oréal’s liquid eye shadows in one of 12 shades, all with a smack of shimmer.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
• The joke missed, badly. Smith walked onto the stage from his front-row seat and took a swing at Rock with an open palm, generating a loud smack.
  — Tim Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2022
• In the closing moments of the first period, Leveille took a head-rattling smack along the boards from Canucks winger Marc Crawford.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• Speaking of which, Kathy's out on the sun porch talking smack about her competitors with Susan, April, and Nancy.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2023
• The result was a serious burn concentrated right smack in my shoulders—with nary a twinge in my traps.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 8 Oct. 2020
• This is a step up, some designers say, from traditional fans with a basic globe light tacked on smack in the middle.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
• Reynolds’ Adam, who drops into a woods lit with ’70s Spielbergian blue light and skulks around bleeding from a bullet wound, talks as much smack as 12-year-old Adam does.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
• This was a postcard September afternoon smack in the middle of Missouri -- one chiseled from the mold of a football game day.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 27 Sep. 2020

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smack

2 of 3 verb

• The man smacked him in the back of the head and, in Spanish, told him not to lie.
  — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
• The man smacked him in the back of the head and, in Spanish, told him not to lie.
  — The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
• Then, the orcas will smack their tails on the edge of the school of fish and eat any stunned fish.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
• But the Day-Glo hues all caress and smack and seduce the eye.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• Things ramp up when a bug smacks into Fallon’s face in the midst of the chaos.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• Jada looked unimpressed by the joke, but Smith took the stage and smacked Rock across the face.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• Lee came in, smacked her cell phone out of the woman’s hand and punched her in her chest.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Okoronkwo popped up and smacked Hudson in the head, and dashed away.
  — cleveland, 30 July 2023
• Smith made a beeline for the stage, smacked Rock and returned to his seat.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
• Williams jumped on the back of another who was about to smack Blue.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2022
• At one point, the president appeared to smack the lectern in anger.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
• The Canes smacked 19 hits Tuesday, 10 of them for extra bases.
  — Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
• The memes about getting smacked by your mom with a chancla?
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• The crowd got a showstopper, from the artist smack dab in the middle of that night’s lineup.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
• Jeremy Peña then smacked a single to left to send Abreu home.
  — Kristie Rieken, Chron, 15 May 2023
• The Kia smacked the inside wall and began heading across the highway.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
• The jolliest time of year is also smack dab in the middle of cold and flu season.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
• Otto Lopez later smacked a two-run home run in the inning.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Heck, even Rocky Balboa used to smack sides of beef in a freezing meat cooler.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Chicago residents and tourists have smacked about 100 bottles of ketchup from the stand in the last few weeks, Heinz said.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• The pair share a tense exchange, which ends with Dalton smacking Harris across the face.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the 55th minute, a dangerous shot from outside the box by Kiki Pickett smacked off the top of the crossbar and out.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2023
• With two outs, Noda smacked a sinker for a single into left field.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2023
• Don’t fall down and smack your head on the pavement at this news, but there’s a new Miranda Priestly in town.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2024
• Destiny Sims smacked two home runs and drove in three runs from her leadoff spot for Sparkman.
  — al, 3 Mar. 2023
• Some even managed to stab through the buildings and smack into the surrounding city.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2023
• Teoscar Hernandez then smacked a line drive to center field to score Rodríguez and make it 1-0.
  — Kristie Rieken, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• Her true love follows, and the ensuing chase leads her to leap a hedge, fall to the ground, and smack the back of her head against an obtrusive rock.
  — ELLE, 2 Apr. 2022
• There was a point in my high school career, smack dab in the middle of the 2010s—the dog days of the Indie Sleaze Era—where a certain pair of boots became all the rage.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2024
• Broth got smacked with a Stop Sale for still being too warm after being in a reach-in cooler overnight.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024

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smack

3 of 3 adverb

• The ball hit me smack in the face.
• She dropped the book smack in the middle of the table.
• One such piece was installed smack in the middle of Owens' set.
  — Nick Remsen, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
• The town of Clayton sits smack in the middle of Idaho, nestled deep in a canyon alongside the Salmon River.
  — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2020
• The tracks had all the dangers of heavy industry but also ran smack through nature.
  — Sebastian Junger, Outside Online, 19 May 2021
• Remember the Rangers that broke through in the late ’90s, only to run smack into a Yankees dynasty?
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2021
• The famous brothers break down plays, talk smack to each other and welcome special guests.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
• What’s even better is that Colorado’s nine-day muzzleloader season falls smack in the middle of the elk rut.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2021
• Even the most promising solutions to climate change often run smack into the challenge of how to pay for them.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2021
• Their fans will always live next door to each other, will always be friends every other week of the year, will always talk smack at each other.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2022
• For those not up on their Florida geography, Florida's Space Coast sits smack in the center along the state's east coast.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2021
• The trio talked smack, and their post-practice workout sessions resembled a kind of bully ball for most of the last three months, all so Harris was better equipped for the postseason grind.
  — Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
• This warm world, cataloged as Proxima b, sits smack in the middle of its habitable zone — the sweetest of sweet spots — where liquid surface water could exist.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2016
• That growing interest is running smack into a dearth of vehicles after rental car companies shed hundreds of thousands of their cars during the earlier days of the pandemic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• That extensive documentation has run smack into a hard reality, however.
  — Michael Biesecker and Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• The ball hit me smack in the face.
• She dropped the book smack in the middle of the table.
• One such piece was installed smack in the middle of Owens' set.
  — Nick Remsen, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
• The town of Clayton sits smack in the middle of Idaho, nestled deep in a canyon alongside the Salmon River.
  — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2020
• The tracks had all the dangers of heavy industry but also ran smack through nature.
  — Sebastian Junger, Outside Online, 19 May 2021
• Remember the Rangers that broke through in the late ’90s, only to run smack into a Yankees dynasty?
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2021
• The famous brothers break down plays, talk smack to each other and welcome special guests.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
• What’s even better is that Colorado’s nine-day muzzleloader season falls smack in the middle of the elk rut.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2021
• Even the most promising solutions to climate change often run smack into the challenge of how to pay for them.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2021
• Their fans will always live next door to each other, will always be friends every other week of the year, will always talk smack at each other.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2022
• For those not up on their Florida geography, Florida's Space Coast sits smack in the center along the state's east coast.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2021
• The trio talked smack, and their post-practice workout sessions resembled a kind of bully ball for most of the last three months, all so Harris was better equipped for the postseason grind.
  — Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
• This warm world, cataloged as Proxima b, sits smack in the middle of its habitable zone — the sweetest of sweet spots — where liquid surface water could exist.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2016
• That growing interest is running smack into a dearth of vehicles after rental car companies shed hundreds of thousands of their cars during the earlier days of the pandemic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• That extensive documentation has run smack into a hard reality, however.
  — Michael Biesecker and Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022

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