The phrase "a single slap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe one instance of hitting someone with an open hand, often in a figurative or literal context.
Example: "With a single slap, she silenced the argument that had been escalating for minutes."
Alternatives: "one slap" or "a lone slap".
That way he would not miss a single slap shot while working.
This stereotype of the hulking black brute, impervious to pain, capable of crushing strong white men with a single slap of his massive hand has been with us for a very long time.
However, while the previously identified Lactobacillus S-layer proteins are in the size range of 40 200 kDa and encode a single SLAP domain, these group-specific putatively surface-exposed proteins of the "Firm-5″ clade are substantially larger, 350 500 kDa, and encode two SLAP domains.
This is an epidemic," said Turner, who explained that until recently the penalty for illegal dumping in China amounted to a single, "slap-on-the-hand fine" that sometimes made it cheaper for factories to pollute and pay than to properly dispose of toxic waste.
A series of single slap bond tests were conducted on CFRP steel joints with three different adhesives, which individually represent the linear and nonlinear adhesive of the CFRP delamination failure and the adhesive of the cohesive failure for comparison.
It is a mistake to over-react to a single appearance slapped together by a Santorum campaign undoubtedly stunned by their sudden success.
Overturning an earlier ruling that a single or "rapid" slap on the rear was acceptable, the court ruled that an uninvited touching of the buttocks constituted a sexual act.
When I came down from the attic with the pastel portrait in my hand of a long-lipped stranger with a brave moustache and deep brown level eyes, she ripped it into shreds without a single word and slapped me hard.
In his best-known work to date, The Slap, a single incident – a child being hit at a suburban Australian barbecue – reverberates through the lives of the book's multiple narrators.
In his 2009 bestseller The Slap, a single gesture triggered the meltdown of an entire suburban universe, and in this new collection of two decades' worth of short stories a wide variety of protagonists discover that their lives are just waiting to be ripped apart.
fastball before Suzuki slapped a single to left field.
