Sentence examples for slapping through from inspiring English sources

It was a place with a G.I. culture and language all its own, where grunts humped the paddies to waste Charlie or get blown away, where angry brothers fragged white officers, where Vietnamese squatting by the roadside sold No. 1 (best) grass in deftly resealed Marlboro packs and there were always several choppers slapping through the rancid black plumes from burning latrine cans.

He loved the rocking of a heavy boat in a slight swell reaching to windward on a blue-sky day with a glint of sun on the water, the masts creaking, the wind slapping through the rigging.

12th over: England 64-3 (Key 1, Flintoff 5) Ervine was about to bowl a maiden to Flintoff, but the scheduled last ball of the over is a no-ball which Flintoff slaps through mid-off for four.

Photograph: /Cotton and polyester 1.48pm GMT 4th over England 26-0 ( Ali 10, Lumb 15) This pitch is slower than Neil Webb in concrete boots, and it sticks itself to Rampaul's first ball, which sits up to be slapped through the covers.

Then a gift-wrapped full toss is slapped through the covers for four.

Well, it looks like a column shifter, but it really is dash-mounted, translating to a longer reach from the steering wheel, which could make it difficult to slap through the gears in a Blues Brothers-worthy, reverse J-turn manoeuver.

This dependence on Jeter goes beyond all the mere statistics that suggest he is surviving, at 37, by slapping bleeders through the infield.

Morgan brought up his ton with a maximum and, after the left-hander was dropped in the deep, Bopara reached three figures by slapping George Dockrell through the covers for four.

We spent afternoons climbing volcanoes and riding bikes through hillside villages, the pat-pat-pat of hands slapping dough audible through the open doors of the tortillerias.

8.24am GMT The Czechs are 1-0 up against Latvia, Martin Erat slapping the puck through the goaltender's legs from distance.

Britain's messy constitution is a product of decades, even centuries, of muddling through, slapping sticking plasters on problems and hoping the whole thing holds together.