How to Use wallop in a Sentence

wallop

1 of 2 verb

• I was so angry I felt like walloping him.
• Still, that’s the dead horse that has been walloped and clubbed for much of the last two months.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Punch, freed, grabs up a slapstick and wallops him with it.
  — Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• And this would be the third weekend in a row the Northeast gets walloped by heavy rainfall.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
• Many nor'easters – big storms that wallop the East Coast – are the product of bomb cyclones.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
• Ian is forecast to wallop much of the southeastern U.S. with a nasty mix of rain, wind and storm surge over the next few days.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
• The win came hours after the Wildcats walloped West Virginia, 10-0, in a must-win game for both teams.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
• That defender has to be strong enough not to get walloped, and long enough to make any contest at all.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• California has been walloped by a series of storms in the past year.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Told with what feels like a light touch until its tragic themes wallop you upside the head.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 22 Mar. 2022
• Torrential rain will deluge parts of the Southeast this week as swaths of the Northwest will get walloped by feet of snow.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
• On a crucial third down, Jackson dropped back and was walloped by Michael Danna.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2019
• With seven starters returning on both sides of the ball, Thurston topped the preseason poll and walloped Churchill, 55-0, to kick things off.
  — Bob Lundeberg For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2019
• Any balls found wanting will be chucked away, while the ones deemed acceptable are duly thrown into the air and walloped across the net.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2019
• There, Palou walloped the field by more than 30 seconds for his only win of the season, leaving him 5th in the standings.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2023
• As a powerful coastal storm wallops New England, the Mid-Atlantic gets blasted by strong, chilly winds for the next 36 to 48 hours.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• Hillsides, valleys, and mountains stretch widely across the game's field of view, and the game is keen to wallop you over the head with its enormous scale every step of the way.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 1 July 2020
• Tens of millions of Americans are in the path of a winter storm that's forecast to wallop much of the eastern U.S. with snow, rain and wind over the next couple of days.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
• After a timeout, Tatum walloped George with a between-the-legs step-back that left George on his rear end, and then calmly drilled a deep 3-pointer to tie the game.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• And this was long before the internet had emerged and walloped newspapers.
  — Keith Campbell, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2019
• The Wolves also walloped the Hornets on the boards, winning the rebounding battle 46-22.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 21 Feb. 2023
• Matthews added two assists as Toronto walloped the Ducks 9-2.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
• Those are feats that Buttigieg, who got walloped in a 2010 bid for Indiana state treasurer, cannot match.
  — Bill Ruthhart, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• Everything else just gets walloped by new GPU options that cost scads less.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 12 July 2019
• Ricci, who noted his tea was too hot to drink at the time, is seen walloping the man in the face with the beverage before pulling out his own firearm.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Chapman singled in two runs in the third, then walloped a two-run homer in the fifth to help down Seattle 9-2 on Tuesday night at the Coliseum.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
• The Lady Timberwolves walloped Deer Park 56-24 last month.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2020
• California got walloped by a tropical storm for the first time in 84 years.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Hip-hop, by then a dynamic subculture, was walloped but would not be set back.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• In 1893, the world was walloped by a second panic and depression that hit the United States particularly hard.
  — TIME, 18 Mar. 2024

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wallop

2 of 2 noun

• Kroll gets a wallop, Agnes gets a drink thrown in her face, and the two fight.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2022
• For a non-songwriter, the lyrics pack a hell of a wallop.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2020
• Then that movie packs a wallop and ends up on my top 10.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
• The storytelling is rich and the imagery packs a wallop.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• And the wallop, of course, was nothing personal, was well meant and all that.
  — Diane Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• Starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu, the ringleaders of the group, the movie packs a bold wallop.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Most of the precipitation came from a quick wallop of rain at the very end of April.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• And then came the wallop: That flash-forward story turned out not to be Kevin's wedding day, but Kate's.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Thanks to Taylor Hawkins on the drumkit, the Foos never lacked wallop either.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2022
• The nor’easter is now beginning to hit much of Southern New England with a wallop of snow and heavy rain.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• But nothing at Wawa packs a bigger wallop than the meatball sub.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• But plenty of the global economy still runs on the burning of crude, and a price spike can still pack a wallop.
  — David Dayen, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
• Carey's percussion grew from soft rolling taps to kick drum wallops.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2019
• By the end of February, the emotional wallop of Li’s death seemed to be fading.
  — Paul Mozur, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2020
• Trump was countered by the wallop of the resurgent pandemic.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020
• Still, the recent twists have carried more of a wallop, breathing some life into the show, if not bringing it back to its peak.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 24 Nov. 2019
• Pixar’s full of raw and powerful moments that pull our heartstrings, but this one packs a wallop.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2022
• But all the preparation and set visits couldn’t prepare the women for the emotional wallop of watching the movie for the first time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Oliver’s homer was good for two runs in the seventh, and seemed good for a 6-4 triumph until Robinson’s wallop.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• The twin edge rushers might pack a wallop that leaves their targets seeing double.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022
• With a face like Boba Fett’s helmet, the Ioniq 5 and its future intent pack a wallop.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• In a movie willing to shed blood and tears to prove that point, Shyamalan’s sincerity packs the biggest wallop.
  — Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• On some days, like Wednesday’s 10-7 loss to the Los Angeles Angels, the offense packs a wallop and the pitching is punchless.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
• To combine a nice chapter of history with a big old wallop of scenery, hop aboard Grand Canyon Railway.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• Today, they're being bid up as investors ponder, wait a second, there isn't yet a wallop of bad news, so why not buy the dip?
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2021
• The Lucero singer says there’s a flicker of hope — along with wallops of humor, heartbreak, and empathy — in McCarthy’s books.
  — Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• Today’s recipe is for a style of chicken that carries so much flavor that its wallop has become somewhat of a rage.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• This is so not a horror movie—not scary in the slightest—but its ending packs an unforgiving wallop.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
• And now, both new and longtime viewers can tune in as the eagles endeavor to keep their eggs warm from a wallop of wintry weather.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• There’s no harm in aspiring to grand emotions, but the story has rushed the beats that would elevate the final wallop from good to excellent.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024