whack

Example Sentences

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I try to fold over myself, kicking the stick shift and somehow managing both to knee myself in the chin and whack my foot against Dara’s arm.

From Literature

But in his excitement, he whacked his head on the bottom of a hanging lantern.

From Literature

“It may be that the ring can detect something out of whack but then our bodies fight it off,” Ricky Bloomfield, the chief medical officer at Oura told me in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal

The economy may be less like a tire swing that always bounces back after being whacked with a stick, and more like a piñata that eventually bursts.

From The Wall Street Journal

That would whack stocks, as nonprofessional investors have reliably bought every dip because they have been conditioned to believe stocks always rise.

From Barron's