Sentence examples for on a whack from inspiring English sources

Going hard to the net, taking a puck in the mouth which ended up in the net (the puck, not his mouth) perhaps right off his jaw or on a whack of his stick when it fell to his feet (the puck, not his mouth).

After Luke is conscripted into the British Navy — by means of a whack on the head and shackles — he spends several hellacious months aboard a vessel called the Essex, where he is witness to brutal lashings, horrific injuries and the all-too-familiar gamut of seafaring woes.

Scholes, 37, had been relatively quiet up until that point on his first start since 22 May 2011, save for a whack on Mark Davies, but he was lurking at the back post to tuck in Rooney's cross after David Wheater had blocked Nani's centre.

Creating an algorithm that can define Fake News is taking on a game of whack-a-mole that's sure to fail.

Gertrude and I hurry the sheep when they lag with a whack on their spongy bottoms.

But sometimes you've got to cop a whack on the chin to get a bigger prize.

Rather, last week he sent back a letter that stung worse than a whack on the hand by a 12-inch ruler.

With a whack on the top of his helmet, he crushed it down over his eyes again, and charged out of his chair.

Of possible defeat she said: "I just don't want to see [America] fall backwards".Victory in New Hampshire tossed her a lifeline when she was expecting a whack on the head with a boathook.

The problem was that Jimmy's post-traumatic look of utter bewilderment – think Lawrence Dallaglio at the moment of walking into a patio door – was pretty much indistinguishable from his expression before he took a whack on the noggin.

"A Whack on the Side of the Head" (Business Plus), a book about increasing creativity, has just been reissued to celebrate its 25th anniversary and it easy to understand its lasting appeal.