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Example sentences for "slap"

Lexicographically close words:
slanted; slanting; slantingly; slants; slantwise; slape; slapped; slapper; slapping; slaps
  1. Those who maintain that nothing good ever comes from Russia have suffered a nasty slap in the face.

  2. You see I put my foot right slap on the thing.

  3. It did not enter his head that all the occupants might be out; and he was right, for presently, after he had thumped on the door with his gloved fist, there was a slip-slap of feet within and a sloven of a woman opened to him.

  4. You must have got her slap in the boilers.

  5. If we can slap it into her first, we can deal with the barges at our leisure.

  6. The old man'll slap a tin fish into her afore she knows what's hit her.

  7. We must work up along the next gully parallel with them and get a slap at 'em over the edge.

  8. Ken flung up his captured rifle, and fired slap at the first.

  9. So when I slap a gob of it over your mouth and nose inhale hard and deep.

  10. After the way the old man chewed you out, though, I knew he'd slap irons on me without saying a word, so we kept it dark and hid out in Baby Three.

  11. Hardly had he seen the wretched conductor leave his desk when he had rushed from the box; he plunged down the stairs from the first floor to meet him and slap his face.

  12. Buck up, Gentleman Gus,” encouraged Jerry, giving the weeper a friendly slap between the shoulders.

  13. The slangy consolation and the slap had a potent effect on Gussie.

  14. So I jumped to the ground, and gave him a hard slap with the butt of one of my revolvers, which started him on down the valley, while I scrambled up the mountain side.

  15. Ho, parson, this is new work for you," greeted Brereton, giving him a hearty slap on the shoulder.

  16. I'm always scared somebody'll twist the sights off'n it, or take the doggone thing away and slap me.

  17. Why, a man'll be plucky one day and the next morning he'd cry if a jackrabbit was to slap him in the face.

  18. I felt the slap of his ice-cold hand upon my throat and his teeth in the back of my neck!

  19. A spurt of irritation with himself succeeded that first desire to slap the message-bearer's face.

  20. She felt that it was either that or deliberately slap Sanchia Murray's face.

  21. With this singular contradiction of terms, brother Ned gave Tim Linkinwater a slap on the back, which made him look, for the moment, almost as apoplectic as the butler: and tossed off the contents of his glass in a twinkling.

  22. Will it not slap and pinch the envious dowager, that dares to reflect upon its own delicious?

  23. You always keep on in the same path, and do them things that you see your father do, and when you die you'll go right slap to Heaven and no questions asked.

  24. Well, that slap in the face to us is not altogether uncleverly or unfoundedly directed.

  25. There was sich a lot, an' Samson was so heavy, that the yolks squirted up all round him, an' a lot of it went slap into some of our faces.

  26. Tommy Brass was none the worse; so, after wringing the water out of his clothes, he went up to Billy and gave him a slap in the face.

  27. I will slap them down for you, if need be, Monseigneur.

  28. Lorenzo gave the hound a sharp slap on the side of the head.

  29. Sophia released a long sigh and brought the palms of her hands down on her knees with a slap of finality.

  30. The mosquitoes did not seem to bother him, or at least he did not slap at them.

  31. It was apparently of a jocular nature, for he felt impelled to slap his leg again and cram his fist into his mouth.

  32. Slap from the bridge fell old Peachey, turning and twisting in the air like a penny whirligig that you can sell to the Amir.

  33. Yes, you old toper," cried North; and then he seemed to drag his hand down just as he was raising it to slap the old man once more upon the shoulder.

  34. Old Buck,' and give me a slap i' the chest, as nearly knocked all the wind out o' me.

  35. At the slap of my quirt against the stirrup, all the cows immediately about me shrank suspiciously aside.

  36. No man can slap my face and not get a run for it.

  37. Jeannette shook him off and at the same time dealt him a stinging slap in the face; then she took to her heels like a deer, with Paul in hot pursuit, in an ungovernable rage.

  38. The slap on his shoulder did not offend Nekhludoff this time; he did not even notice it.

  39. The chief warder came up, gave Maslova a slap on the shoulder, and making a sign with his head for her to follow led her into the corridor of the women's ward.

  40. So Giorgio and Luisa gave the donkeys each a sound slap on their backs, which made them swing their tails and start on up the long steps.

  41. Giorgio and Luisa gave the donkeys each a sound slap to keep them from turning back, for donkeys are lazy animals.

  42. Lincoln's guarded manner about identifying the rails and sly slap at his ability to make better ones show that he was in the scheme through recognizing that the dodge was of value politically.

  43. On the table lay a sheet of written paper: instructions for General Hooker to renew fighting although it only brought the slap on the other cheek--at Winchester--and still Lee pressed on into Pennsylvania till Harrisburg was menaced!

  44. An occasional cigar, a friendly slap on the back, did for him.

  45. The man probably never knew exactly when the floor came up to slap the back of his lap.

  46. Listen, babe, don't get high-hat with me or I'll slap you down.

  47. Black Hood let the clutch slap in and the roadster bounded back onto the tarvia drive.

  48. The boat rocked, the sail flapped, and a wave came with a slap against the side, and splashed the luggage in the bottom, before Scood yielded, and sat down on the forward thwart.

  49. Then, as if recollecting himself, he dashed his hand across them and gave it a slap against his side, scowling heavily.

  50. Long Shon, giving the side of the boat a slap with his great hand.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.