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How to use smacking in a sentence

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True-to-form, Phil ended up throwing his considerable weight around and smacking his father-in-law to be.
They were the work of a determined minority of clergy and liturgists who had a horror of anything smacking of the transcendent.
The new law will prevent registered childminders from smacking or using any form of corporal punishment against children under eight.
The government needs to forget the new smacking law and bring back corporal punishment.
Policies like the smacking ban would criminalise law-abiding people, he said.
Their words sometimes resemble curses smacking of trash, provocations or an outburst of their personal emotion or the emotion of their own group.
He preys on vulnerable women with money, and has no problem smacking them around if they give him any grief.
The crack of helmets smacking helmets and the grunts and groans all had a familiar ring.
Inside every one of us lies a Puritan streak which abhors anything smacking of frivolity or done for the sheer joy of it.
The newly adopted Lords' amendment on smacking will inspire many parents to examine their past conduct.
The news that he was injured must have had them smacking their lips in anticipation.
In bake houses across the city, chefs are busy whipping up their festive-best offers, even as cake-crazy customers are smacking their lips.
She reapplied her shocking red lipstick in the rearview mirror, smacking her lips in satisfaction.
It's an insane effort, smacking of majoritarian tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
And so, in a cynical political exercise smacking of opportunism if not racism, they scapegoat the unborn children of non-national parents.
He preys on vulnerable women, and has no problem smacking them around if they give him any grief.
The city offers spicy, tangy and lip smacking food at every nook and corner.
It was basically like ballet except everybody went around smacking each other and giving each other piledrivers.
The sudden weight change threw her off balance and her head pitched forward, smacking into the metal.
He cracked a grin, but was shocked when Kate's other hand suddenly lashed across, smacking him in the side of the face.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Lantier, who felt gay, was sucking his barley-sugar, and smacking his lips.
The porter could hardly refrain, from smacking his lips with an air of relish as he said this.
Rabba filled the two cups which he had from a leathern bottle, and Hormuz took a cup in each hand, smacking his lips as he did so.
For a while there was a dead silence, save when broken by smacking and relishing lips.
The fact is our weapon, and believe me I'm beaning Mr. Bates a smacking good one with it.
We can none of us go about smacking innocent folks just for the fun of it.
The old man still sits, often smacking his dry lips without the least consciousness.
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