Sentence examples for a spanking for from inspiring English sources

Shackleton comes in for a spanking for not using skis, "probably because he too lacked the patience to learn their use".

He has jabbed at Mr. Booker, joking that he deserves a spanking for trying to unseat a fellow Democrat, and noting that the well-traveled mayor has no shortage of work to do in his own struggling city.

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may have been joking last week when he suggested Newark Mayor Cory Booker deserved "a spanking" for talking openly about running for his Senate seat.

Delhi has a spanking metro, for instance, with first-class infrastructure, which actually runs on time.

You have earned a second spanking for not having more faith in your daughter.

This week, the game's makers EA shook up the Ultimate Team mode and got an absolute spanking for it – on Twitter, obviously; nobody's showing up at their place of work with paddles.

Anyway, Butcher carries on with a spanking cover-drive for four off Oram.

Since then, Lineker has received immense public support, but also, as he referred to it, a "spanking", including calls for him to be fired from his BBC presenting job and even more predictable jibes about "champagne socialism".

When I first heard about them, the concept intrigued me: a strange business model stuck in an era where the internet doesn't exist, and machines still operate by coins like a spank-bank for steampunks.  .

When I first heard about them, the concept intrigued me: a strange business model stuck in an era in which the internet doesn't exist and machines still operate by coins like a spank bank for steampunks.  .