Sentence examples for robust slap from inspiring English sources
It was not long, however, before he was an animated figure in his technical area, in regular dialogue with his backroom team, bellowing instructions to his players and even giving defender Phil Bardsley a robust slap on the cheek at one point - a slap of encouragement, it should be stressed.
Loiseau frequently greeted me with a robust hug or slapped me on the back, asking, "I'm the best, right?" With his customers, too, he was childishly insecure.
Ted never makes a definite move on Martha, but you can sense the squirm of desire within him, and when he solemnly informs her, "We are trying to have a baby," her laugh — rich, robust, and mad — slaps him into a look of wounded panic.
"It's hard enough to build and distribute a great product, let alone slapping a robust business model on top of one".
The still-robust principal owner, George Steinbrenner, slapped the 25-year-old Weaver on the back and introduced him to Yogi Berra, proudly trumpeting his future ace.
The robust victory of Mr Qalibaf's supporters in the simultaneous local elections is a slap in Mr Ahmadinejad's face, which was prominently displayed on posters across the capital.
In Traister's view, the pervasive, breezy smears served as "loud, bright, incontrovertible consciousness-raisers". "What those media men could not grasp," she writes, "was that their belittling, butt-slapping approach to her was actually fueling her robust new persona".
