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Example sentences for "smacked"

Lexicographically close words:
slye; slyly; slyness; slype; smack; smacking; smacks; smaht; smal; smale
  1. The corporal smacked his heels together and almost threw his arm out of joint saluting.

  2. Freddy Farmer's rear guns barked out their message of war, and one of the Italian Bredas was smacked on the wing like a clay pigeon.

  3. You was smacked as a little babe, by many people kindly, when ever so much tenderer than you now can claim to be.

  4. He smacked his lips at the thought of this, and gave a little flick to his horses.

  5. I smacked his head and took him into the cottage to explain.

  6. He was smacked hastily and bundled off to a preparatory school, where his aptitude for smuggling sweets would have lost him many a half-holiday had not his services been required at outside-left in the hockey eleven.

  7. Of course I smacked his head for him; but he looks so surprised and reproachful when he's done wrong that you never feel it's quite his fault.

  8. The business smacked of a conjuring trick.

  9. Such sharp practice as this smacked of a bargain sale.

  10. Con, as he smacked his lips and looked at his glass through the candle.

  11. The cobbler emptied his glass and smacked his lips.

  12. Then, taking a whiff, the poet smacked his lips, but placed the jug upon the table, its contents untouched.

  13. He was smacked for that, but he had his compensation.

  14. At certain points in the course of the song Lasse took off his cap and smacked it against his head while he raised one leg in the air.

  15. He jerked away his hand in a pet, smacked his whip, whistled to his dogs, and intimated that it was high time to go home.

  16. Besides, there was something sinister in the unknown force that had engulfed so strong a mind as the professor's; for while Watson's fate had been of his own seeking, that of the doctor smacked too much of treachery.

  17. Whatever the civilisation of the Thomahlians, their ritual in Watson's eyes smacked still of barbarism.

  18. They smacked their lips appreciatively, and the next question followed pat.

  19. When you have smacked all the horses' backs and taken the pheasants' temperatures, come in.

  20. He grinned atrociously and smacked his corrugated lips; but when Gaspard Roussillon came in, the old man was sitting at some distance from the bottle and glass gazing indifferently out across the veranda.

  21. He smacked his lips sincerely and fingered another scone.

  22. While he hastily swigged and smacked he heard the firing begin with a crackling, desultory volley.

  23. The speech reached the mother's ears, and she smacked the child for lettin' on to any one how poor they are.

  24. He awoke with a start to the fact that he was still, in the main, living with and moving among people who smacked strong of Blent, who had known him as Tristram of Blent, whose lives had crossed his because he was Addie Tristram's son.

  25. Oh, you aren't in a funk of a man who's smacked your head!

  26. With a dryness that smacked of his uncle Everard Romfrey, Beauchamp said of the fantastical posture of the young man, 'One can do that on fresh water.

  27. He smacked his hands, crowing at the vociferations of disgust of those negrophiles and sweaters of Christians, whose isolated clamour amid the popular uproar sounded of gagged mouths.

  28. The Rector's pensioners smacked their lips over the mysterious liquid and confidently affirmed that it did them more good than all the doctor's stuff the parish apothecary could send them.

  29. Then he smacked his emaciated thighs and, despite his inner conviction, yielded to a feeling of optimism: "Oh, well!

  30. He looked at the flowing water, the clean slabs and walls, the shining tins, and smacked his lips satisfactorily.

  31. At last, a grinning sergeant smacked his thumbs as if the first idea of his life had occurred to him, and led me to the pulpit.

  32. The old brown man drank down the yellow liquid and smacked his lips twice, loudly, meditatively.

  33. He was sturdy, with curly hair and full vigorous lips that he smacked hungrily as he ate.

  34. The son had this in common with the Honourable Hilary--he hated heroics; and the fact that the thing smacked of heroics was Austen's only deterrent.

  35. For a year he shakes hands mechanically, but in the years before and the years afterwards, nobody, I imagine, has ever smacked him on the back.

  36. Gabrielle's white hand smacked his face as soundly as though she had a navvy's hand, and she also paid him back for his words by throwing his hat to the other end of the room.

  37. There was nothing that smacked of the priest in his talk.

  38. Despite the adhesion of most of the Ancients to his plans, Bonaparte, on appearing before them, could only utter a succession of short, jerky phrases which smacked of the barracks rather than of the Senate.

  39. Such religious opportunism smacked of the Parisian boulevards: it utterly ignored the tenacity of belief of the East, where the creed is the very life.

  40. The inspector shook his head, whereat the woman smacked the face of the nearest constable, obviously with the intention of being arrested.

  41. Bindle whistled, grinned, then he smacked his leg vigorously.

  42. They were confined within close bounds, as Mr Podsnap's own head was confined by his shirt-collar; and they were enunciated with a sounding pomp that smacked of the creaking of Mr Podsnap's own boots.

  43. To conclude, smacked his lips, as if all three replied, 'We think well of it.


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