How to Use slap with in a Sentence

slap with

phrasal verb
Definition of slap withnext
  • You can be slapped with a $270 fine for walking around in your swimwear outside of the beach.
    — Ronny Maye, Essence, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Anyone caught smoking in a smoke-free area can be slapped with a fine of up to $50.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And if not, they’d be slapped with an antitrust lawsuit.
    — Gal Luft, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
  • In just the first week of April, the county was slapped with at least three new lawsuits by people who say they were abused as teens.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • After two years in business, Bodega has been slapped with a cease-and-desist.
    — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 15 July 2024
  • Saga’s jockey rode him to a fifth-place finish, and was slapped with a ban after for careless riding.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
  • In early August, he was slapped with charges for his actions to try to overturn the 2020 election results.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • On Tuesday, the jockey astride the couple’s horse Saga was slapped with a nine-day ban for careless riding in the Wolferton Stakes, where the duo finished fifth.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • The blow-ups have led to financiers being banned, people jailed and banks slapped with fines for poor internal controls.
    — Bernadette Toh, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • Along with the criminal complaint, he also was slapped with a lawsuit from Pagar in 2021.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • For existing users, dealing with all these problems and then being slapped with a price increase has got to sting.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Violators could get slapped with a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 29 May 2023
  • One downer, though, it got slapped with a C- CinemaScore.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Alba, clearly frustrated, was slapped with a pair of yellow cards four minutes apart late in the game and Miami had to finish the game with 10 men.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Then the tables turned, and Ms. Oh was the one slapped with an accusation of serious misconduct.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Trump trials: Donald Trump was slapped with a partial gag order in the New York hush money case that bars him from talking about witnesses and court staffers in the case.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Even the most disturbing and explicit horror films, or the most gruesome action films, are never slapped with an NC-17.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
  • He was slapped with dozens of charges, arrested and sentenced to prison in three different cases, sending shockwaves through the country.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The Cincinnati Bengals’ Tee Higgins saw every player who was slapped with the franchise tag this offseason get rich … except for him.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • But the week after her election as the new party chair, the state GOP was slapped with another six-figure bill, yet another debt the party is disputing.
    — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • One bummer: It got slapped with a C CinemaScore from audiences.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Which social media giant was slapped with a record $1.3 billion fine over data privacy?
    — CNN, 25 May 2023
  • Since both countries have been slapped with stringent Western sanctions as a result of the war in Ukraine, their economic alliance has been reinforced as trade between the pair has increased.
    — Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Prominent opposition politicians, human-rights activists and journalists have been jailed for lengthy terms, slapped with big fines or forced to flee the country.
    — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Earlier this week, they were also slapped with federal narcotics conspiracy charges, which carry a sentence of 20 years to life in prison.
    — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • In 2021 a woman was slapped with federal charges related to approaching and filming a grizzly bear at an unsafe distance.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 May 2023
  • Foxman’s tweet, however, was slapped with a Community Note for taking Glazer’s quote out of context.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Real estate agents have been slapped with a court ruling that their commission practices violate antitrust laws.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The award ceremony took place only hours after Lizzo was slapped with a lawsuit from a former wardrobe designer for her tour earlier this year.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
  • His legal issues spilled over to Erika, who was named in a fraud case and slapped with multiple civil suits for allegedly participating in the mistreatment of said funds.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024

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