How To Use Wallop In A Sentence

  • They didn't pick up any ground against Boston, who spent its day walloping Toronto to remain two games in front of New York. Yanks Smack Cleveland Again
  • A tremendous production that packs an emotional wallop. Times, Sunday Times
  • Als jullie mij lichaam van tempeltrap gooi, Gibbu, Blav, Mivve en Wallop, zij in dorp zeg jullie gevaarlijke moordenaars ben. Roleplay, culture and morality
  • As a lightweight, he carried a pretty solid wallop to go along with his uncanny ring generalship.
  • Then Plenorius gat his horse, and came with a spear in his hand walloping toward Sir Launcelot; and then they began to feutre their spears, and came together as thunder, and smote either other so mightily that their horses fell down under them. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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  • Angrily, he grabbed the first thing that came to hand (a wooden spoon), crossed the room in three strides and walloped Simeon as hard as he could.
  • Insiders are bracing for some walloping arguments over the company's direction in the coming months.
  • Rodney R. Land of Land Dairy in Mayo Florida sold a dairy cow for food with 0.2 parts per million (ppm) of sulfamethazine in her liver tissue and Michael D. Martin of Martin Feed Lot in Harrisburg, Illinois sold a beef heifer for food with a walloping 38.855 ppm of sulfamethazine in her liver as well as 0.1781 ppm of flunixin, say other letters. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • It was impossible to judge the Germans on their walloping of hapless Saudi Arabia.
  • Like so much of what's been reported about Lorna Moon, it was largely codswallop, the tittle-tattle of small town gossips.
  • Sure enough, he gave us a right old walloping in front of the press, claiming that Jack had never had any deal on the table.
  • It was a quiet, introspective story - with a powerful wallop.
  • Supposedly about ideas and values, parties are usually tools for marshalling and brokering power - often crassly and with a walloping dose of self-interest.
  • Boris Johnson today dismissed continuing concerns over the News of the World's use of phone hacking as "codswallop" that "looks like a politically motivated put-up job by the Labour party". Boris Johnson dismisses concerns over News of the World phone hacking as 'codswallop'
  • Not necessarily a ground-breaking assertion, but I'll bet there's more than a few folks out there who could use a walloping masterpiece of ethereal but hard-driving psychedelic garage rock.
  • Our swaggering demon is resolute until agile Laksman climbs on his foe's bent thigh to deliver a walloping strike that sends Intorachit reeling.
  • Is it a spiritually enriching pursuit or load of old codswallop?
  • The priest was just behind her, and I swung the broken billhook haft and landed a two-handed wallop on one of his shins. Wildfire
  • Martin walloped me on the back and poured me a double and, ‘shamed as I am to admit it, I started bawling and wailing.
  • I fell down seven steep stairs on Saturday morning, a walloping, raucous ride on my butt bone into the basement.
  • Whatever accompaniment you choose, tomato water lets its colors shine through but packs a wallop of supporting flavor.
  • With the theatre company facing crises on every front, it would be good to report a walloping seasonal hit.
  • Once, she walloped me over the head with a frying pan.
  • He'd be awfully sorry after he accidentally walloped her on the head with a cuspidor, but she'd still have the aching noggin.
  • Such anthropomorphic drivel is codswallop, no matter who says it.
  • If I ever catch the rascal I'll really wallop him!
  • This will be crash, bang, wallop. The Sun
  • Last week in Yarraville, he became the fourth person to be pulled over at random and forced to surrender a saliva sample to the wallopers.
  • New Atherton pro Mihir Diwaker showed he can bat as well as bowl with an unbeaten 86 in a 139-run walloping of Astley & Tyldesley.
  • Our ‘content’ should be at all times inept, obscure, bluff, diatribe, baloney, codswallop or at worst irrelevant.
  • To the band's credit, this only seems to increase their pummelling potential, provoking them into walloping, abusing and thrashing their amps harder than ever.
  • So although that doctrine sounds wonderful, it is a lot of poppycock and codswallop to say that we should all be tolerant of everybody and should not have any standards.
  • After ever-increasing amounts of verbal diarrhoea from Kinnear culminated in his new contract codswallop, the best thing he can do now is keep his trap shut in public and get on the "trombone" to try and pull us out of the proverbial. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • If it is the case that Wanderers can, as their manager maintains, put such a humiliating defeat behind them then the White Hart Lane walloping could indeed prove a blessing in disguise.
  • This is totally untrue, complete and utter codswallop.
  • Our team got a terrible walloping yesterday.
  • A tremendous production that packs an emotional wallop. Times, Sunday Times
  • Straw coverage can weaken the wallop of raindrops and keep the surface ped from being destroyed; it also cut down the evaporation loss of soil water.
  • It packed a powerful, joyous wallop, delivering all the things one hoped to find in music: The thrill of the new, the excitement of the unexpected, a galvanizing groove, and lyrics that actually said something.
  • Oklahoma rose to No. 3 after walloping Iowa State on Saturday. This Is All Far From Over
  • After it received a critical and financial walloping upon its release, was anyone clamoring for a new, extras-laden director's cut of Elektra?
  • In a 2008 book, Prof. MacKay dismisses what he calls the "codswallop" in the energy debate, such as government campaigns to get citizens to turn off their cellphone chargers. Climate Fight Heads for New Round
  • Lurking on the cusp of the penalty area Sanjuan met a defensive header with a walloping half volley into Craig Nelson's top right - hand corner.
  • The '86 World Cup was followed by an abysmal display in Euro '88, including defeat to Ireland in the opening match followed by wallopings at the hands of the Soviet Union and Holland.
  • The semis saw Oak beat Sun and Tankard wallop Hammerton Social 6-0.
  • I was going to use the same description, but was not sure on the spelling; I was leaning towards "codswallop" though. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • That's bound to confuse future historians, but not as much as another recent discovery, Heidbanger Hole, in honour of the unfortunate speleologist who walloped his head on his way out.
  • But even our ‘modernising’ government now seems to be succumbing to this anachronistic codswallop.
  • Reports are that, like the other quake drinks, it packs a wallop.
  • And besides, if they did, Israel could always go back in and wallop them again.
  • Problems continue to pile up for beleaguered Leeds United manager Peter Reid as the club ended one of the worst weeks in its history with a walloping, a bust-up and bottom place in the Premiership.
  • He can cut loose, smash and wallop the ball for towering sixes and delightful fours.
  • How's that for a load of guilty conscience-fuelled, hypocritical codswallop?
  • Perfectly calmly, reasonably, and without visible emotion, they were rehearsing a formula which even I, ignorant staff-walloper that I was, could see was one for disaster. The Sky Writer
  • On reflection whilst I stand by the thrust of that comment I would like to apologise for the intemperate use of words such as codswallop and and craven. Ben Stewart: An Apology
  • Valencia did not look like champions and had arrived demoralised after a first league defeat last Sunday and a 5-1 walloping from Internazionale in Europe.
  • I must go down to the basement at once with my trusty two-by-four and administer a few more bracing wallops.
  • Our team got a terrible walloping yesterday.
  • Finally, it is with some joy and relief that I can say that alternative shows and venues can still pack a wallop.
  • He believed children should be allowed to read codswallop, the idea being the habit will propel them to more fortified pleasures.
  • In this film, after walloping us with images and falsely placating us with words, the director blinds us with light.
  • But Cosmos still remain one of the teams which inflicted a heavy defeat on Bucks when they walloped them 5-1 in a Coca Cola Cup in Umtata a few years ago.
  • As a result of Wilberfoss' misfortune and a 4-1 walloping of Wheldrake, White Horse moved into third place in the table.
  • Cordelia leaned over and walloped him once, hard, on the back.
  • More crash, bang, wallop action. Times, Sunday Times
  • While becoming established as a longshoreman, or “dockwalloper,” as they have been dubbed on the Great Lakes, Danny busied himself reading in his spare time. Kill the Irishman
  • Such anthropomorphic drivel is codswallop, no matter who says it.
  • The latter is a trip: 75% cacao, studded with nibs, sludgy-looking and packing a wallop. Best of 2009: New food
  • He cut me a walloping slice of cake.
  • In earlier posts about the sad state of policing in Victoria, the Professor may have been just a bit too harsh about the wallopers.
  • We had a walloping time at Daryl's wedding party.
  • Once, she walloped me over the head with a frying pan.
  • From there the striker had a straightforward job of angling his body and walloping it home.
  • Och, but the wean outskraugh, sclentan back on the breist o his nourrice, fairlie dumbfounert he was at the sicht o his daddie that loed him, fleggit sair at the bress and the crest wi its wallopan horsehair, kelteran doun frae the tap o the bassanat, unco the sicht o't. Languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.
  • Once, she walloped me over the head with a frying pan.
  • One Hiram Codd did 'invent' a cold refreshing drink which it is claimed was called codswallop and since the Cockney slang for a glass of beer is a glass of wallop, maybe this is its etymological origin. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • One of the large cauldrons was slowly "walloping" with a mysterious appearance of self-restraint, as if it bided its time to put forth its full energy. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
  • The metropolitan area has been walloped by the loss of nearly 10,000 high-paying telecom jobs and - in a recovery that's so far jobless - there is little relief in sight.
  • Well, some would argue that it's codswallop to even consider that animals possess complex minds.
  • With one brutal wallop, Clarke flattened him.
  • He is big, and broad and takes guard with a wide stance and hits the ball an enormous wallop.
  • He showed his determination to hang in there when he refused to be substituted despite taking a nasty wallop on the side of the head in the first half.
  • The pitch stayed up and was walloped 438 feet to left center, a three-run, two-out homer that put the game out of reach.
  • Overall though, Moneyball is more melodramatic than one might expect from the pen of Sorkin who massaged an earlier draft by Steven Zaillian, gooier in the middle and coshing the audience with emotional wallops. Moneyball – review
  • So when the poultice-walloper shook his head over Oliver, and glanced towards me, lying there all blood-spattered and pathetic, I was ready with a feeble gesture to keep him at a distance - the last thing I wanted was the little bugger poking at me and exclaiming: THE NUMBERS
  • The visitors sensed they had the upper hand at this point and on 25 minutes, they nearly stole a second goal when Kieran O'Donnell walloped the crossbar from all of 40 yards.
  • This unspeakable piece of codswallop pretty much sums up the worst of New York journalism for me.
  • On one play, Hammonds snuck into the end zone for a touchdown - and took such a wallop from an opponent that he broke the helmet he and Foley shared.
  • But it was Seroquel's 2009 approval as an add-drug for depression that helped it reach its spectacular sales of $5.3 billion in 2010 thanks to the U.S.' walloping depression "market" of 20 million. Martha Rosenberg: Oh That? Deceptive Marketing Settlement Doesn't Stop Seroquel Advertising
  • So after protein drinks, becoming a vegetarian, exercise, stopping smoking, and doctor after doctor I decided to relieve my pain with small doses of heroine for a walloping 3 whole weeks.
  • Together it would be a double wallop that could not come at a worse time for advertisers.
  • Last week was not only good for the Party, it was a triumph for Fox, which walloped its cable rivals and the ‘big three’ networks in the ratings.
  • And in the blues, it wasn't so much a hint as a wallop.
  • As Arsenal's form slides, Madrid have gathered a momentum interrupted only by the walloping in Zaragoza.
  • Passing out of an elite institution and making a distinctive fashion statement is a double wallop.
  • With a big serve and a walloping double-handed backhand, Safin is apt to overwhelm opponents but Haas has some big strokes of his own and to his credit withstood the barrage.
  • It's hissy and it lacks the wallop of the onstage quartet, who play their own instruments. Times, Sunday Times
  • However I did detect, to my distaste, a big wallop of condescension.
  • We'll wallop them!
  • Despite throwing a walloping £19 million at a system that worked very well thank you on a shoestring, the corps has not been an unqualified success.
  • If you can't hum quietly, then mumble loudly these wallopy words under your breath.
  • There were "scot and lot" boroughs, "potwalloper" boroughs, burgage boroughs, corporation or "close" boroughs, and "freemen" boroughs, to mention only the more important of the types that (p.  080) can be distinguished. [ The Governments of Europe
  • He countered with a sound wallop to the back that swept the other man off his horse as he turned.
  • Stephen Carson walloped another long-range shot goalwards, although this one demanded fine handling from the goalkeeper currently on loan from Manchester United.
  • Wallop was a slang term for beer, and Codd's wallop came to be used by beer drinkers as a derogatory term for weak or gassy beer, or for soft drinks.
  • Life is difficult enough for them without having to cope with all this codswallop as well.
  • This will be crash, bang, wallop. The Sun
  • And the man took a club, came up to them and aimed at the lion's head and fetched him a wallop.
  • When it comes to her tennis, she is bright enough to construct a point, strong enough to wallop a point and fast enough to rescue a lost cause.
  • Unfortunately, the book itself is regarded by genuine historians as codswallop.
  • If she had been to the big house without his consent then a good walloping was indeed called for - but he would have to NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • It appears that she got a hefty wallop from something heavy, which has pushed her sideways several inches over the edge of her plinth.
  • When she wakes up from that whack you gave her, she'll be ready to deal you a wallop, I'm sure.
  • At his home in Edinburgh's Lauriston Place, Mr MacDonald dismissed the illegitimacy claims as "codswallop". Clansmen's Claims are 'Codswallop'
  • a pot-walloper by capacity, he was a loose-jointed, sniffling creature, heartless and selfish and cowardly, without a soul, in fear of his life of Dan Make Westing
  • American Steel do not play pure, walloping punk (few bands really do) as much as they create a grotesque amalgam of past punk-related styles.
  • In Florida, as in at least 20 other states with similar laws on the books, pricing curbs kick in during declared emergencies - say, when thousands of residents have been walloped by a natural disaster.
  • Really, Susan, from you I expect a more rigorous intellectual analysis this treacly old cods-wallop! Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
  • Not even the prospect of a hernia operation could limit Brian Kelly's silken style as he led the ‘return’ of Palatine after a walloping by Eire Og in their initial championship outing.
  • Every propane wallop sent a man-sized streak of flame into the open throat of the nylon that bulbed out above us. Underworld
  • If a 13 point win is a "walloping," what term would you use for UNC's beating MSU by 36 points? Undefined
  • Uni also had a win last week, their 52-12 walloping of Mullum, ensuring that the Gold Rats remain at the top of the table.
  • In some places (the so-called "scot and lot" boroughs) the suffrage was exercised by all rate-payers; in others, by the holders of particular tenements ( "burgage" franchise); in others (the "potwalloper" (p.  024) boroughs) by all citizens who had hearths of their own; in many, by the municipal corporation, or by the members of a guild, or even by neighboring landholders. The Governments of Europe
  • It belongs to this freeman, to that potwalloper, to the owner of this house, to the owner of that old wall; and you have no more right to take it away without compensation than to confiscate the dividends of a fundholder or the rents of a landholder. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
  • Once, she walloped me over the head with a frying pan.
  • A wonderfully-struck drive from Scotland, following yet another exciting slalom across the face of the Dunfermline defence, walloped the crossbar before flying out of harm's way.
  • He soon found work as a "pot walloper," or dishwasher, at a restaurant on the Hudson River piers in New York. Fast Food That Won the West
  • He looked at me from under his bushy European mullet, through glazed eyes and gave me a wallop on the shoulder.
  • Once, she walloped me over the head with a frying pan.
  • And do you honestly think that I normally allow females to wallop me across the face?
  • EC, fess up – you copy your codswallop from a large book collection of Keynes-Samuelson cant, don’t you? Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
  • You'll get a walloping if you don't behave.
  • Till light and birdsong come Walloping up roads with the milk wagon.
  • ‘EU talk codswallop,’ thundered one tabloid headline, with fishery leaders threatening defiance of any ban.
  • The result is a relatively short work that packs a substantial wallop, evoking a world in which there are no simple answers, either in individual lives or in the lives of nations and continents.
  • Given how loathsome the men are, all the emotional wallop comes from the women. Times, Sunday Times
  • We are all entitled to our opinions (and to think mine are a load of codswallop) and to get out there and express them as stridently as we please.
  • Given how loathsome the men are, all the emotional wallop comes from the women. Times, Sunday Times
  • More crash, bang, wallop action. Times, Sunday Times
  • In what other football game, one might ask, is the skill of those who get the ball and wallop it up the pitch - hopefully to one of their own players - so admired?
  • Of course it's 40 years later now, but Jackson can still pack a wallop with a voice that has just gotten more velvety smooth with age.
  • I just love the wallop in the back of the nose that you get with Wasabe!
  • Although your comment about 8 strikers walloping 15 defenders will win you the award for most astute footballing brain ever. Judges have a blindspot whenever destroyers like Vidic play a blinder | Rob Bagchi
  • Then, for the love of Pete, wotcha doin 'walloping off'n her like a sack of potatoes? The Girl on the Boat
  • Once, she walloped me over the head with a frying pan.
  • There was an embarrassed staff-walloper on the platform at Chicago to convoy our hero to General Sheridan forth-with, and from little Phil we learned that Sherman had sent word that the Sioux expedition was definitely to proceed without Custer. Isabelle
  • They dive over the plate to wallop outside pitches up the middle, knowing the inside strike won't be called.
  • As to what Her Ladyship had to say about the proms I can sum up thus: codswallop, which is code for ‘balderdash’. Archive 2008-03-09
  • Most of the dishes hit us with a wallop of flavour right from the start, so the different tastes didn't really have a chance to unfold.
  • It was particularly embarrassing in the light of the Italian's walloping of the Scots, with arguably less of a rugby-playing population than we have here.
  • Page was in a position to speak that kind of codswallop, Sir David thought, his expression blank. CORMORANT
  • As for his scaremongering about forced repatriation, what a load of codswallop.
  • What a load of unadulterated, self serving codswallop!
  • It's a good thing she did not have to give evidence before him - he appears to be monumentally unswayed by codswallop.
  • They lost tonight by a walloping score of 14-8, to the team with the nastiest, most obnoxious coach ever.
  • Selby's second string recorded their third successive win as they dished out a walloping to neighbours Thorpe Willoughby.
  • It's hissy and it lacks the wallop of the onstage quartet, who play their own instruments. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a scene that really packs a wallop because it's believable.
  • But it is questionable if many people know very much about him after all, or if the Fielding of legend -- the potwalloper of genius at whom we have smiled so often -- has many things in common with the Fielding of fact, the indefatigable student, the vigorous magistrate, the great and serious artist. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation
  • The sympathy this pair inspire means the film's climax packs an almighty wallop. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's actually a load of old codswallop - the Belgians brew the best beer in the world.
  • After popping the wrong man, Britain's wallopers will be just that extra bit more cautious before hauling out the shooting irons.
  • It might be codswallop, but I was in bad need of positive omens.
  • We make the pizza bustaurant, and they're like, gormy Codswallop! Eater National
  • Dad, of course, will happily wallop an unplucked pheasant on the table during breakfast, before heading out to chase wee moosies from the grain store and inspect a few cow posteriors before sundown.
  • The conductor blinked uncertainly; J.B. tended to have that effect on folk, and the four of us were sufficiently large and ugly to daunt the stoutest ticket-walloper. THE NUMBERS
  • It's all pretentious codswallop and any film that uses such dialogue is begging for critical praise.
  • I've never heard such a load of old codswallop in my life.
  • Agha Abedi, the Pakistani founder of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, arranged hunting outings for the sheikhs in return for walloping bank deposits.
  • Give the jelly a wallop and carefully lift offthe mould. Times, Sunday Times
  • In some places (the so-called "scot and lot" boroughs) the suffrage was exercised by all rate-payers; in others, by the holders of particular tenements ( "burgage" franchise); in others (the "potwalloper" (p.  024) boroughs) by all citizens who had hearths of their own; in many, by the municipal corporation, or by the members of a guild, or even by neighboring landholders. The Governments of Europe
  • After four years at Kincoppal I think it's all a load of utter codswallop. THE THORN BIRDS
  • They gave it an almighty wallop and the alarm sounded.
  • Say, for instance, the underhand toss the hurler sent toward the behind (aka catcher) went to the spot you'd indicated and you walloped a shot to the second sack man.
  • My mother gave me such a wallop when she eventually found me.
  • You'll also find the peas that, laced with wasabi, pack a significant wallop.
  • It's walloping fun in the sense of the high-end nature that we're detailing. Bryan Young: Interview: Judd Winick Talks Batwing, a New Batman Comic Set in Africa
  • It's a quirky little film, but it packs a wallop, toying with our expectations.
  • He's not the biggest guard in the league, but his punch packs quite a wallop.
  • He had to pay a walloping fine.
  • It's his knowing way around a walloping chorus and his welcome sense of restraint and economy that allow said hooks to live for many hum-worthy listens.
  • Och, but the wean outskraugh, sclentan back on the breist o his nourrice, fairlie dumbfounert he was at the sicht o his daddie that loed him, fleggit sair at the bress and the crest wi its wallopan horsehair, kelteran doun frae the tap o the bassanat, unco the sicht o't. Languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.
  • This is all very fine: but the simple fact is, it is beginning to rain, and I think it advisable for us to beat, fustigate, (where _did_ you get that, Miranda?) or wallop, a retreat! The Merryweathers
  • She walloped him across the back of the head.
  • A walloping 90 percent of Americans have some form of gum disease and tooth decay.
  • He walloped his head on a beam.
  • In Warsaw a protester hurled an egg that walloped him on about the same quadrant of his person as did the egg thrown at the deputy prime minister the week before.
  • I got the walloping of my life for that offence, although she had to call old Ahuna in to help give it to me. SHIN-BONES
  • After reading this report, it seems the younger generation now has a better way to foil the wallopers ' close attentions.
  • Let us concede that the high-born Grig rode into the entrenchments at Sobraon as gallantly as Corporal Wallop, the ex-ploughboy. The Book of Snobs
  • If she is good, she will have a proper bedroom and all the chocolates and taxi rides she desires, but if she is idle, Mrs. Pearce will wallop her with a broom.
  • Sheffield followed by taking him even deeper, walloping a towering homer into the upper left-field deck.
  • Even if I could've seen her clearly there was no time to react as two hands walloped me above the right ear, the strike like lightning in that it took a second until the thundering roar inside my head commenced.
  • There was a lot o 'men' an 'loons staiverin' aboot Carnoustie playin 'at the gowf; an' Sandy says -- "Look at thae jumpin'-jecks o 'craturs wi' their reed jeckets on, like as mony organ-grinders 'monkeys, rinnin' aboot wi 'their bits o' sticks, wallopin 'awa' at Indeen-rubber ba's. My Man Sandy
  • Sir Henry Wallopp, treasurer and treasurer at war, 1579-99, also briefly joint lord chief justice, and ideological colleague of Spenser's, was by 1584 impressed by the heavy mortality that had fallen on Munster through war and its inevitable shadow of famine, pointed to the consequent need "to repeople it again with a better race and kind of people than the former were. Dead heads and humanists
  • Her own three sons - whom she was still cheerfully cuffing into their twenties - had always been walloped when they were naughty.
  • Plenorius gat his horse, and came with a spear in his hand walloping toward Sir Launcelot; and then they began to feutre their spears, and came together as thunder, and smote either other so mightily that their horses fell down under them. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • However, despite throwing a walloping £19 million at a system that worked very well thank you on a shoestring, the corps has not been an unqualified success.
  • It was a busy day in Nether Wallop when more than 300 people gathered in the village square for a street market and party.
  • Rafiyev is required to pay a walloping 67.2% of sales in taxes.

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