Sentence examples for swift slap from inspiring English sources

"I'll get it, Mama," Ogechi said, getting up, but a swift slap to her face sat her back down.

Maico steeled himself, and with a swift slap he upended the blind man's tin, knocking it and the coins from the beggar's hands and into the street.

Some widows, Ms. Oates suggests — ahem — might benefit from a good swift slap to break the spell of grief-mongering pathology.

Her life was saved by a swift slap from one of her performing lions, Leeds, who knocked the tiger away and who Ms. Rosaire now calls her hero.

Some powerful women have claimed that they certainly wouldn't put up with any such nonsense: a swift slap around the face would be their response.

When Waks was 12 years old and questioned a teacher about whether the Rebbe was really infallible, he received a swift slap in the face.

After Mike Ross Patrick J. Adamss) revealed to Rachel Zane Meghan Marklee) in the Season 2 finale of "Suits" that he couldn't write her a recommendation to Harvard Law School because he hadn't actually gone there — "I'm a fraud," he said — the result was not one but two swift slaps to his face, followed by steamy sex among the copying-room shelves.

This is because we are swift to slap negative stereotypes onto boys.

Its portrait of people who see themselves as decent, self-righteously trying to eradicate another culture, has the impact of a swift, hard slap in the face.

There are Rihanna's swift and linguistically inventive slap-downs, notably of MTV after its tweet, "Yikes Rihanna's marijuana photos from Coachella spark controversy".

Last year the Observer's food critic Jay Rayner slapped a swift nail in this particular coffin when he set out to discover how a sustainable food chain might look in the coming years, and concluded that local, seasonal produce is not a solution but a middle-class lifestyle choice.