spank

Example Sentences

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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

There’s plenty of time for the market to spank Musk even more than it has the past few months.

From Slate • May 1, 2025

“Are you going to spank me for lying — not for dropping out?” thinks David in adulthood, after belatedly informing his parents that he’s ditched the master’s program in Harvard’s Department of Soviet Studies.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2022

This time the player in question is Oriel Romeu, who shows great technique to spank a volley past Angus Gunn.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2022

Nobody would ever spank a kid who’d had a dead horse fall on him.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith