spanking

Example Sentences

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Sharon Schmeling, one of the couple’s children, said her father told her the surgery went well and that her mother had a “brand spanking new knee.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

The spanking the 49ers took could do that.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

She delivered sharp, spanking speeches to Iran, Russia and China at the United Nations for grown-ups?

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2023

There was a public spanking from the Federal Trade Commission over some of the services they were offering during the pandemic.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

He looked at me like I was his spanking newborn baby and he did love me so, but feared the world would never be what any of us had hoped for.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver