Sentence examples for wrist slap from inspiring English sources

That may sound like a wrist slap.

Some war criminals got off with a wrist slap or scot-free.

A recent federal investigation into banks' foreclosure abuses ended with a wrist slap.

And people may think that they are a mere wrist slap.

"It was the wrist slap heard round the world," Conte said.

But these no-admission settlements can be little more than a wrist slap — and certainly do not qualify as punishment.

Following yesterday's wrist-slap report, Sanders campaign chair Jeff Weaver said "the report speaks for itself.

Martin is hardly the first to criticize what many regard as the sport's wrist-slap punishment policy.

His attempt to clear the courtroom air of prosecutorial sanctimony earned him a quick wrist-slap from Justice Hall.

There is a wide spectrum of scientific sins, ranging from wrist-slap offenses like bad data storage at one end, to data fabrication at the other.

But the difficulty of getting beyond a wrist-slap from the council explains why the Europeans have been in no rush to get there.