Sentence examples for slap about from inspiring English sources

Bothroyd ran to the dug-out and got a slap about the head from his manager.

"If we became like that, our mum would just …" suggests Howard, miming a salutary maternal slap about the head.

Mr. Sarris also embraced, albeit with an occasional critical slap about their heads, Young Turks like Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola.

European nations have the right under trade rules to slap about $4 billion in sanctions on United States goods as of Nov. 1.

It arrives in the churning wake of his massive bestseller The Slap, about the eponymous blow delivered at a family barbie, but this is a very different kettle of aquatic creatures, more personal and less trashy, though it does draw on the same well of dwelling among the second- generation immigrant communities in Melbourne.

It's beautiful, rocky and slapped about by a wind so harsh it makes your brain swear.

Judging by the fact that 18 million people (approx) have complained to the BBC about this storyline, the only happy ending that EastEnders viewers would like to see is surely Ronnie being set upon by a lynch mob, strung up by The Arches (painful), and slapped about by fellow residents queuing up in the manner of that scene from Airplane.

The final project of Capcom subsidiary Clover Studio which officially closed in March 2007 only to be "reborn" as PlatinumGames is supposed to be knuckles-bleedingly rock hard, so I opted for an "easy" mode slap-about for an hour or so, to see if I'd get sweaty.

He beats the language, slaps it about, along with the things it describes.

"I was slapped about a little," says Little.

Iran is a serious country, not another two-bit post-imperial rogue waiting to be slapped about the head by a white man.