The word "punching" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of hitting someone or something with your fist, as in: He punched his pillow in frustration.
A "callous and brutal" father who murdered his baby daughter by repeatedly biting, punching and shaking her has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.
Perhaps crucially, Watford possess an enviable range of attacking options but Bournemouth, Brentford and Ipswich have been punching above their supposed weights for too many months to be written off.
Whether it was punching his own goalkeeper, throwing his shirt at a referee, hitting a team-mate with his boots (presumably not on his feet at the time), or his innumerable sendings-off, not once has there been an expression of regret for the undoubted wrongs he has committed.
Warren Luke, 38, a Metropolitan police officer, was accused of repeatedly kicking and punching the 41-year-old woman, who, hospital staff had said to him, was refusing to leave.
At the crease he holds himself with a crouched, dense, burrowing intensity, before punching at balls with the sudden anger of a caged rat.
Which is true, if he had ever been in as much trouble as Labor is, Raiders of the Lost Ark would've ended with Hitler punching Franklin Roosevelt in the face.
Punching above his weight is an understatement when it comes to Juncker's role in what the EU has become.
Leonard ran around punching the air and was swamped by caddies, team-mates and wives.
If, as a parent, you are encountering any difficulty knowing that it's bedtime, you can tell they're tired when they start punching you in the face and screaming: "I'm not tired".
Tensions between police and student protesters have grown over the past few months, after an officer was filmed allegedly punching a student in the face.
Burruchaga's free-kick from the right swung away from Schumacher who was left punching thin air as Brown headed the simplest of goals at the far post.
