wallop

Record-high beef prices will continue to wallop U.S. consumers this summer as drought conditions and the resurgence of an invasive pest are the latest obstacles to increasing cattle herds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

They also wallop small businesses, which typically pay tax at their state’s individual rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

For what it’s worth, the film boasts a wallop of a final line, which hits at the sickening reality of what it’s like to be both a child and a parent in America today.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025

The Getty Museum’s groundbreaking Pride Month show is provocative and important, and the timing packs a wallop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

“He took a wallop, that’s for sure. But you know what that’s like, don’t you?”

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

By using the “Net Rating” metric from college basketball stats guru Ken Pomeroy, it’s possible to measure how thoroughly a team wallops its opponents on both ends of the floor, adjusted for strength of schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

He wallops his first ball to the boundary and then promptly heads back to the pavilion.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

Bayona’s take on the tragedy wallops its viewers with 2 hours and 24 minutes of unrelenting intensity.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

As another winter storm wallops the West, the mountains will receive much-needed snow, but states including Oregon will also see significant freezing rain on Saturday.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

Third batter wallops one hard right to me.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

Mr. Huling describes a cave in Florida that was walloped by a powerful, once-in-a-century hurricane, drowning almost all of the 4 million bats inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

I wondered, though, if there were any retired Dodgers out there who might be thinking they’d have walloped more home runs if they’d had the advantage of warmer air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Clement and the law firms walloped the government.

From Slate ● May 15, 2026

Consumers are cutting back on how much they’re spending to fill up their gas tanks these days, but most household budgets are still getting walloped by higher prices.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Deciding that he didn’t feel like having the daylights walloped out of him, he walked to the rack of weapons and selected two wooden swords.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

The men traded a series of incendiary, insulting songs, but the one that endures is Lamar’s “Not Like Us”—spooky, walloping, chart-topping, Grammy-winning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Guided by visionary coach Curt Cignetti, Indiana has spent the College Football Playoff walloping blueblood programs like Alabama and Knight’s Oregon Ducks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Marseille climbed provisionally top of the French Ligue 1 on Friday after walloping woeful Nice 5-1 in a one-sided local derby with fireworks on and off the pitch.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

Earlier in the day, the Eagles delighted their home crowd by walloping the Washington Commanders 55-23.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025

There was a walloping buzzing in my head.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech