Sentence examples for slaps of the from inspiring English sources

She has experienced the unique gantlet of the red carpet and the slaps of the fashion police.

How did you wind up here, at the fish market, receiving your boys, their taunts, the slaps of the East River winds?

Mr. Essrog's illness causes him to compulsively tap everything within reach -- six slaps of the dashboard or six touches on the shoulder -- and makes every conversation a pun-filled call-and-response.

Though you could see how the zapateo footwork — tapping heel and toe, sometimes adding various slaps of the hands — became a Peruvian tradition combining elements from different cultures, this version seemed, in winsomely tourist manner, mainly to feature the lowest common denominators.

Lots of slaps on the back.

That notwithstanding, the reactions by regulators have in large part been minor wrist-slaps of the most egregious offenses and an assumption that these offenses were the product of rogue employees; not a logical extension of firm or even industry culture.

He hit him another slap of the phone book.

The slap of the obstetrician's hand on my bottom.

"This is the last slap of the dinosaur's tale".

It's a brutal, bracing slap of the new.

Museums offer the dream of the past; galleries, the slap of the new.