How To Use Slap In A Sentence

He slapped away a few dryads, but they still surrounded him.
Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces? See, it's not all about the election today.
IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
King was eight years old when he was slapped by a white woman in a downtown Atlanta department store and insulted with a racial slur.
Drawing an ultrasonic syringe from a cabinet in the wall, she slapped it against Kohlberg's arm and pressed.

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There's no wit here, just slapstick comedy. Times, Sunday Times
The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
The look should be tough, not twinkly, so apply dark colours in a slapdash way. Times, Sunday Times
It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
The cliffs closed in as the river swept round a bend, its waves slapping against vertical rocks.
Separate from the slapping lesbians, a battle began to rage between the lesbians who were pagans versus the lesbians who were Christians, and then the lesbians who wanted to have “baster babies” factioned off, too. Roseanne Archy
Viceroy's voice was still a monotonous drone, and I wanted to slap him just to see that he could still talk and/or yell with emotion.
A braai is the South African version of a barbecue - and I figured I could handle slapping meat on the grill. Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
He got a slap in the face.
I can't see so well, it's getting dark and the reeds are tall here, willowy reeds that slap your face when you climb down with your rake and cull and dreg the day. Dock
Victorian propriety is an important element of the story, the atmosphere to be upended over and over by slapstick action and sudden death. Archive 2008-02-01
Slap - up and ultra transparency toys, adult things, cupula material, sport equipment and seal rings etc.
The slap she gave him made his cheek tingle.
She suggests a four-stage process: walk into your house; turn the oven up high; prepare two or three ingredients in imaginative combinations (such as poussin, sweet potato and red onions; or cod, courgettes and capers); slap them in the oven, soused with oil and herbs; and retire to a sofa to souse yourself with something even stronger. Sorted For Brill And Whizz
This satirical, slapstick comedy is a feel-good film that is effortless to watch.
Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander): Just before the show begins, neglects to put on one of his ridiculous trucker caps and accidentally slaps some deely boppers on his head instead. '30 Rock' live: What could possibly go wrong?
As she made her slow journey across the room, she heard the faint sound of bare flesh slapping against the stone tile.
Basically, most things that we can tax in this way have clearly defined negative externalities (you know, 1: 1,000,000 kids go retarded for each barrel of toxic sludge, so you slap a cost on that and pass it on to the guy who makes the sludge), and a clearly definite positive internality. Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Booze Taxes
Aaron and Adam had begun slapping each other on the cheek with one hand while the other punched the other one in the arm.
Their slapstick stick-ups keep escalating till they realize that all of Dick's former co-workers have also turned to a similar life of crime.
This is surely not so much a knock-out punch, more of a gentle slap on the wrist.
Thunder roared in the distance, and reality slapped me straight in the face.
Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
As the night wore on, I got to the point where I was repeatedly slapping the bartop with my palm, shouting at the bartender, Take credit for what you do! The Credit is All Mine
They were in good wind now, and sent him slap up to the ceiling first time, against which his knees came rather sharply. Tom Brown's Schooldays
Yeah, I'm quite slap happy tonight!
For a while, an hour and a half, though she did not know it, until the men came in from the fields trailing dust and slapping their stomachs, Rupban clutched Cheepy-cheepy's limp and bony neck and said only "Coming, coming" to all inquiries about the bird. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Republican Party's slapstick search for a leader would be heartwarming and sidesplitting, but for the tragic knowledge that one of these scrambling midgets will collect tens of millions of votes in the presidential election of 2012. Frank Schaeffer: President Obama Will Win In An Overwhelming Landslide in 2012 and Will Deserve the Victory
And neither do you, thanks to sloppy reporting and slapdash conclusions.
Once resurfacing from the water, hair in his eyes, he could see Jo laughing, not so discreetly slapping her thigh in mirth.
They slapped the cheeks of their buttocks and made facial parodies that I found embarrassing.
Some one, somewhere, must speak for golf - and maybe slap a few wrists.
Billy slapped his knee and guffawed, and he began choking on his pretzel he had shoveled into his mouth. Kari Gremore: An All-American Tea Party
I don't mean to say that Americans are a nation of superficial, backslapping enjoyers and happy-makers, as opposed to our suffering Slavic souls.
CGI programs can be written in almost any language, and the CGI interface is very simple, so Web developers can quickly slap together simple CGI utilities.
As for the 3rd tipe well, you show me the won person who's life has bin impruved by reeding and I will show you a commy smarteepants who ot to be slaped for thinking he is beter than me. James Napoli: We Shood Make Eevin Moar Cuts to Publick Educayshun
This is surely not so much a knock-out punch, more of a gentle slap on the wrist.
I found the violent slapstick humour cruel and unfunny.
Are his lame slapstick antics intended to send us into convulsions of laughter?
The show follows the traditional plot of the fairytale story but with plenty of comedy and slapstick to keep the crowds entertained for both evening and matinee performances.
The band's eponymous debut was recorded in a slapdash fashion.
The Bush Administration has slapped unilateral quotas on imports of Chinese textile products, with the threat of more to come in other sectors.
I reckon that gobby bitch who got slapped got all that she deserved (and look at her lapping up the publicity, even that leech Clifford is on it now). Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Both were later freed after rebellion charges slapped against the two were dropped.
Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.
The trees bowed against the force of the wind, and leaves slapped against the outside of the window.
After I'd almost recovered, he dragged me out of bed and began slapping me.
It is a wonderful place - a fully functioning slice of home life parked slap in the middle of small electricals.
He couldn't care less about the vast age gap between us - in fact he loves me unconditionally whether or not I've got any slap on and whether or not I'm dressed to the nines.
I was surrounded by backslapping, laughing patrons.
A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond.
It's deliciously grown-up, avoiding slapstick in favour of fortuitous mishap.
If anything, the ‘backslapper’ and ‘working man's champ’ type was better known in the industrial districts of the US, than it ever was in Labour (with a ‘u’) movement.
The fact that the dim-witted and near-sighted MPAA has slapped an NC-17 rating on Steve McQueen's Shame implies that there is something prurient about this film, whose central figure is a sex addict, struggling with his demons. Marshall Fine: Movie review: Shame
I felt an almost irresistible urge to slap myself for the stupidity of my question.
Bill Guerin deflected Sergei Gonchar's slap shot from the right point past Jaroslav Halak with 1: 24 remaining to draw Pittsburgh within one. Canadiens beat Penguins, force Game 7
Neither slap-happy comedy nor aggressive action fare, The Beaver is a somber, sad domestic drama featuring an alcoholic in acute crisis.
The tide slapped against the dock wall, and seagulls croaked as they bobbed on the waves, or flew above their heads.
Yes, a real knee-slapper, but it turns out to be about the wittiest thing she's capable of saying. Tom Shales: Derivative suicide show 'Gravity' fails to take off
Obviously my slapdash cooking methods are fraught with peril. Times, Sunday Times
We slapped the blinkers on him in his work and I felt he showed a little bit of improvement but certainly not enough to think he could win.
The closure of the school is a slap in the face to the local community.
WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel " mangler " is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.
But it's not all schmaltzy backslapping in the band. The Sun
She claims she has been slapped, punched and called names on the way to school.
This isn't like a Sunday redtop slapping "Exclusive" on every tatty tale in town. Huffington Post not so picture perfect
He rudely kicks the women out, slapping Stella on her thigh.
Three quiet days went past in the slow slap and plop of the river.
I slap the tuna onto a cracker and pensively munch while examining the rest of the refrigerator.
A hard drop creates a shock that can cause the heads to slap against the hard drive's platter - pieces of the head can be scattered in the drive, and a microscopic dent can be left on the platter.
That's a shame, because her brand of industrial slap was really starting to grow on me.
They poke and slap at one another, while Victoria jumps on Sabrina for a piggyback ride.
I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa? The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com
Each time, stretch the dough towards you to form an arc, slapping it back on itself. Times, Sunday Times
You're a biased party, the parents of the vic, and you're to go nowhere near this case or we'll slap you with obstruction. THE KILL CLAUSE
They want the Prime Minister to use the Conservative Party conference next week to slap down this turbulent priest.
Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels, drawn partly from comic cinema.
With nothing but the gentle slap of one piece of pasteboard against another to distract him, Sam slipped imperceptibly from daydreaming into sleep.
You should have seen the look on my wife's face when I slapped my Zambian kwachas on the table.
She slapped him on his wounded cheek, bloodying her hand.
Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and dripping — that is, eightpenny-worth of food. Down and Out in Paris and London
No one scored again until the third period when we crowded the front of the net and the point took a slapshot that the goalie never saw.
Andy hopped up on the table for a minute, stared at her, then slapped Mia across the chops, drove her out of the seat, and settled in her place.
I ran slap bang into a lamp-post.
Underneath me, a small boy keeps jumping up and slapping a scale model of China that's been fastened to the wall.
The first, vastly enjoyable sign that Alicia is something other than mindlessly supportive comes after the requisite press conference, when she gives him the kind of roundhouse slap such husbands so richly deserve. Julianna Margulies marries strength, smarts in 'Good Wife'
Jacelin slapped his cap on and ran out of the office.
She gently slapped his face to bring him round.
It was a glorious sunny day, the sea was inviting and it was slap bang in the middle of the holiday season. The Sun
The Sun" calls it a massive slap in the face for the United States government.
She slapped his side with the flat of her blade, calmly adding injury to insult before walking away.
After a few seconds the axe flashes into view, helve over blade, and lands with a heavy slap of foam in the stream.
‘We'll all have to be on constant code red to prevent him from exploiting me in one of his slap-happy sitcoms.’
These scenes of strain were contrasted all too neatly with a scene of release for Don, who spent his Thanksgiving paying good money to have a hooker come over and go through what we saw was a regular ritual: The pross on top, slapping Don. EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
I am tempted to spend a thousand quid on smack, shag a back-street-slapper and spend the rest of my life in a cardboard box - but I do not.
I'd wager that car sharing makes petrol company bosses want to slap their foreheads very hard indeed. Times, Sunday Times
I agree with you that it's not right to call your son names, and that slapping him is potentially dangerous.
However, that is an attitude that is shaped by my very Western lifestyle wherein Western grocery stores have no such thing as food courts attached to them wolfing down a sandwich slapped together at the Boar's Head deli counter while waiting in the Express checkout line does not count as a food court, and food courts in shopping malls are teeming with screaming, disobedient children, making for a highly unenjoyable, stressful decision-making process between deep-fried hot dogs impaled on sticks and peddled by pimple-faced Rain-bo Brites and the less arterially noxious chicken "patty" that has been breaded, deep-fried, and smeared with diet mayo. Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market
He fought back the impulse to slap her.
I promise my by now sceptical family a slap-up lunch in Paris.
Must we really clamber up every alluvial fan, map every desert canyon, and slap a name on every dry lake and rocky outcropping?
Richard Boone slaps leather in the classic fifties oater, Have Gun, Will Travel
She could hear the slap of Laura's flip-flops and the swish of her jeans grow steadily louder.
I know no poet who, even in quite slapdash poems, can provide more pleasant and provocative surprises.
Rookie Trent Whitfield almost caught Joseph napping, surprising him with a quick slap shot from the blue line.
So he took his old shoe and painted it out and slapped the new shoe logo on that shoe, trying to see if he could if he could get away with it.
But it should not be reduced to something showing slapstick comedies and lewd jokes.
Bitch-slapping the new Intel Chair is something I put in the fuckup category. Not Enjoyin It | ATTACKERMAN
Iespecially like the “slap bass” towards the end in the days before theymade slap bass illegal,the coke fiend lead guitarist with the stratocaster andjacket sleaves rolled up, and the drummer who looks likehe owns thelocal garden centre. Cheeseburger Gothic » Stoner vids.
He had slapped a hard copy of his warrant on the clerk's desk as soon as he had entered.
Rusty old tin sheets are nailed on to the roof or the sides of buildings to give them a slapdash appearance. Times, Sunday Times
If it makes you feel better, use a pencil. Even better, buy a packet of those little stickie tabs and slap one on the page with a short note.
This has to be the stupidest blog-slap fight i've ever seen. how can someone reall be THAT offended that they were taken off a blog aggrigator? Saddam
Adopted from Native American tradition, the drum beats represent the slap of the female coho's tail as she scrapes out a shallow gravel nest called a redd. The Seattle Times
It's my own duty to expose Caz for the flimsy lies and unfounded insults she slaps up here on a weekly basis.
Hartnett said he was pushed by Laurence, and hit back in self-defence with a single slap with the palm of his hand.
Nicon called at the sense of it and the rest hurrahed and backs were slapped and hands clasped and, yes, there were still hard feelings, but those would be paid later, individually. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
Kayaking might add 5% to your premium, for instance, while heli-skiing slaps on 50%. Times, Sunday Times
I suddenly felt cold metal handcuffs slap on my wrists.
Kameko jumped on top on Turk and began to slap him.
But avoid the more expensive lotions and potions and slap: all these products are pretty much the same. Times, Sunday Times
A genuine initiative, or just another excuse for backslapping and all-star music line-ups?
Everyone was a little tense, slapping each other on the back and making double entendre remarks that were rewarded with great guffaws. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
February 24th, 2009 at 3: 23 pm it would be hard to find a southern governor who is not a woolhat wingnut professional backslapper. Matthew Yglesias » Phil Bredesen Joins Forces With Dixie Wingnuts to Stick it to the Unemployed
The appearance of Travolta trying to be evil by way of Hugh Hefner and Tony Manero is funny enough, but the addition of some slapstick later in the film lightens, for the moment at least, what is an overbearingly grim and depressing movie. Eric’s Top 10 Worst Comic Book Movies Ever » Scene-Stealers
The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
But most of the female population likes to put on a bit of slap now and then for self-confidence and attracting men so for that alone it gives guys some peace.
The only sound was the slap of their bare feet on the cool marble floors, as they had left their footwear at the door.
When the men with ripping muscles and lean frames slapped their arms and thighs in gusto and let out a Viking war cry, the entire place reverberated with the loud sharp blows.
He's a natural salesman, whose secret weapon is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes rather than backslapping bonhomie.
Marching stiffly across the room he performed a perfect about-turn before slapping his tiny sandalled foot on the clay floor and saluting.
I suppose the modrn version of slapstick is "Funny" Home Videos, and I guess there's an element of this here (ooh! what's going to happen next?!) but, being an illustration, without the moral quandary of filming your four year old setting himself on fire with the intention of sending the tape off to Carlton Television. I'm still alive
The first settlers from Europe, having braved the wild Atlantic for a strange and tavern-bare land, can't be faulted for slapping beer together from whatever scraps they could find. Gourd Lovin'
It's an open-handed slap, but powered clear from the hips, and he absolutely staggers.
Then he batted it to and fro, chasing it up one aisle and down another and slapping it silly.
Mr. Towers wouldn't survive as an art critic because no serious journal of painting would permit him to get away with the "slapdash" comparison of Roy Lichtenstein's work with mine. Complaint
Breaking down the left side, Moen deked a defender and beat Khabibulin with a slap shot high to the glove side for his fourth goal. USATODAY.com
The next year, shopping at Home Depot for some army ant anthrax, I saw the bug zappers for sale, then slapped my forehead and got out my checkbook.
A lot of slapstick, seat-of-the-pants saving dishes from total disaster, which involved even more galloping around. Times, Sunday Times
As the coast became clear he advanced on tiptoe to the central office and assumed power, pausing only to open the royal refrigerator and slap together a deviled ham sandwich.
Sunburned, butt-slapping white men came out from the lake for salty corn chips and margaritas and to razz the fatso wives who were mostly reading fashion magazines. Jesus-Man and the Bee Sting
I don’t think this is the whisper of a gay thing, but rather the loud “Yo” - ing, backslappy, hairy-buttocked, yellow-toenailed, hetero thing. The Sorrow and the Pilates
I slapped him and said wake up yourself big fella. The Sun
A girl in an apple-green school tunic advanced on me, her hand raised as if to give me a slap.
Spacek made it 2-0 at the 59-second mark of the second period with another slapper from the blue line on the power play. USATODAY.com
a gunshot slapped him on the forehead
For a brief few seconds he led the Grand National as Clan Royal veered off a straight line, the whipless Cooper slapping his horse as he tried to cajole him back onto a straight line.
It is a discredit to the struggle of the people and a severe slap at the peaceful religion movement.
What planet is this slaphead 4 eyed Liebour loving prat on? WEDNESDAY OPEN THREAD
Instead of a quick hit or slap, we now saw and heard a sustained series of blows.
It is a slap in the face for those employees who went on strike for better pay.
It's hard to see why Stan and the gagmen were so determined to do it because the results are pretty standard slapstick.
Slapdash weeklies at the supermarket checkout line move by the millions circulating gossip, lies, innuendo and scandal.
Moments later, the officer was again slapping a pair of handcuffs on the 23-year-old man, who had apparently just slipped free from bracelets another officer had snapped around his wrists 16 hours earlier.
I'm just saying, I'd hate to see the Town Council get slapped with a costly unrightful termination suit. Gabriel Delahaye: LiveBlogging Kid Nation: Save a Polar Bear, Ride an Eskimo
We were the ones slapping sun cream on our heads all the time. Times, Sunday Times
She could hear the slap of Laura's flip-flops and the swish of her jeans grow steadily louder.
He did not kno., v that he had made a joke until he saw Mel slapping his thigh and laughing.
Is this verbal lashing as a good as a slap from a peer? Inouye Calls Cheney Attack
To enhance control and fun on curvy roads, move the shifter to manual mode and slap it up and down through six distract ratios like the best manu-matic.
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is poised tomorrow to deliver yet another slap to the cadre of railroad dreamers who have been hoping against hope, year after year, to restore freight service along the 10-years-dead Northwestern Pacific Railroad line and so develop the similarly stagnant Humboldt Bay into some kind of entrepot in Pacific Rim international trade. North Coast Journal Comments
Such a dismissal will no doubt be received the way a brisk slap in the face would for the nucleus that goes back to the 2004 NBA title heyday, but the Pistons have earned the skepticism that follows them into the playoffs this year. NBA.com: Fantasy News
The concession to history often consists of a few new buildings with upturned eaves and garishly painted timber slapped on concrete facades.
The plump cook chided me, slapping my small hand away when it reached for one more chocolate chip cookie.
He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead.
I slap two finger onto the bluetouch pad, establishing a link between the fabber and my phone, resting in my pocket. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The Ottawa Senators won the face-off and passed the puck to the point man on the blue line, who slapped the puck at Hasbro.
With one tight slap, Brenda made short work of my smirk, causing the foxes to snicker and bray among themselves.
getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down
She slapped her hands to her cheeks in mock horror.
The sound a piercing slap caused her to jump back, eyes scanning for the two brawling individuals.
The interpretation of that finding is that women tend to respond more to narrative and word play than slap stick.
Occasionally there is too much glad-handing and backslapping, but overall it's a compelling complement to the film.
He ordered a slap-up meal for himself accompanied by two large bottles of beer.
She slapped the bag against his runny nose, ungently. Slice Of Cherry
While that might have been a knee-slapper in the mid-19th century, even adding obscenities wouldn't get it to Comedy Central today.
He also assaulted a woman by slapping her when she refused to give him money.
To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
The first slap sounds like a pistol shot.
If you touch me again I'll slap your face!
He slapped the paint thickly on the wall.
People are quick to slap that label on you, and then just as eager to predict your downfall.
Everyone was a little tense, slapping each other on the back and making double entendre remarks that were rewarded with great guffaws. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Then there were the press conferences with his wife coming in having already slapped the chair umpire around the face. Times, Sunday Times
Maram cracked opened a whelk with a sudden slap of a rock. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
It was like one of those Monty Python sketches where a man in a suit of armour walks in and slaps everyone with a rubber chicken.
Yeah, I know, I probably deserve to be bitch-slapped, so quit shaking your head and waving your finger at me.
In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
Julia gave Roy a slap on the cheek.
There was a starchy department head exchanging low fives and complicated hand slaps with a kid who barely reached his knee.
Rieff swore at the stink, slapped his thigh with his gloves. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Yugi cried out as she received a slap on her cheek.
No one will begrudge you for slapping those greasies into a chip butty for optimal carbs.
Finally, on the fifth day, I put my head out and there was a doctor with a large pair of forceps, which he slapped around my head, and pulled me out.
He is slapped by his favourite star when he asked her out on a date.

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