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

“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

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

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

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith