whacking

Example Sentences

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Whacking a hockey puck into a net is no easy feat, and the players doing it are allowed to show their work.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Whacking isn’t necessary anymore; there’s all the room in the world.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2015

Whacking away, and each time you miss you feel like you’ll have a stroke.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2014

Whacking her guitar more than strumming it, she digs into the despair of a chain-gang convict and extracts sonic gold: a shout, a sob, a desperate prayer.

From Time • Oct. 24, 2011

Whacking big size too, if one may judge.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright