Sentence examples for the whacking from inspiring English sources

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the whacking

verb

To hit, slap or strike.

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I was going to do 11, and without the whacking.

The whacking took place shortly after the ominous doings in the Soprano family Sunday evening.

The wonderful sounds: "the boom and slither of the sea and the whacking of palm-fronds".

That honor would go to the whacking appendages it deploys to crack shells, fend off attackers and even kill rival mantis shrimp.

Its ratings dipped slightly over the last three episodes, but the whacking and dismemberment of Ralph Cifaretto last Sunday may have given the series a second wind.

Even in the end, the whacking of Pussy (Vincent Pastore) had the weight of inevitability rather than an air of the obvious.

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The Whack! of realization.

The whack was Reacher's doing.

He didn't deserve 1/10th of the whack he got.

But he didn't deserve the whack he got.

The whack and thump of shelling in the distance punctuated the hum of the downtown campus.

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