spank
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
But quality with the corner for Casemiro's goal and then that free-kick - you get in team of the week if you spank one of them in the top bin.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
Putin responded that “it’s better not to spank children and not to cite traditions,” but agreed that “unceremonious interference with the family is unacceptable,” and promised to review the law.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
I’ve come a long way—I very rarely yell, never spank, and I’m generally responsive and caring.
From Slate ● May 18, 2021
That’s the thing with the pros; they’d spank us at crazy golf as well.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2019
We might therefore assume that parents who spank are unenlightened in other ways.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Perhaps it’s because it’s by and about women that it spanks the whole bunch of “prestigious” puzzle TV shows, by never letting the puzzle swamp its characters or their psychologies.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2019
For another thing, the movie effectively spanks snobs who claim that people aren’t into books anymore.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018
EST 16:30 85 min: Ribéry and Alaba combine down the left, and from Alaba’s cross, Robben sets up Müller, who spanks it into orbit.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2016
An increasingly pivotal Gerrard spanks a shot yards wide.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2010
The bears disappeared in the direction from which they had come, the cubs urged on with spanks from behind as all vanished in the falling snow.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills
