How to Use spank in a Sentence

spank

verb
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  • Then the mother asked Self if the school could spank the child for her.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 May 2021
  • The Rangers got spanked by the Royals on Thursday night by a score of 8-2.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 25 May 2018
  • There were the old and the brand, spanking new, sport bikes and street cruisers.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The Dolphins should end their three-game skid and spank the Steelers in this one.
    — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
  • How @obj thought spanking the cop was gonna go,’’ Garrett captioned the tweet.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 18 May 2020
  • That’s like giving someone a hug and a spanking them at the same time. ...
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 14 June 2023
  • Oregon looks like one of the best teams in the country while spanking the Buffaloes.
    — oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2019
  • There were moments that some of the moms were on all fours on their chairs and drag queens were spanking them.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Just watch her try to figure out the best angle to spank herself.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 29 June 2019
  • Newsom rolled over so the boy was on top of his chest rather than the court and playfully spanked him with a smile.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Kennedy said Ayers pulled her out of her chair, bent her over a desk and spanked her 18 times with a metal ruler.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The Kowboys spanked the Titans by 20 a year ago, but the rematch looks to be more challenging.
    — Buddy Collings, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Schnepper said that his client, whose name was not released by police, did not spank the child.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The Dolphins are trying to lose, and had a locker-room mutiny after they were spanked, 59-10, by the Ravens in the opener last week.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it.
    — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Rivera then asked the school to spank the child for her, according to Self's testimony.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 8 May 2021
  • As the Sentence trailer teases, Stella doesn’t even know her husband likes to be spanked in bed.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Back in October, the Hawks opened the season spanking those Penguins 10-1.
    — Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Maybe getting popped upside my head or spanked or sent to my room for six hours isn’t really good for my kid.
    — Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 19 June 2017
  • One of my neighbors strives for his version by keeping his yard spanking clean.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2023
  • One hotline caller said Adrian had been spanked to the point where his buttocks were bleeding.
    — Samantha Schmidt, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The child told deputies Davis struck her face multiple times, hit her head with a phone charger, choked her, spanked her with a belt and pulled her hair out, court records said.
    — Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 3 July 2018
  • People were being spanked, hot wax was being poured on bare skin, a man was walking around with heavy weights hung from his balls.
    — Jera Brown, Marie Claire, 20 Dec. 2017
  • One couple taught the children to play the piano, while another spanked them and forced them to listen to Bible readings.
    — Gina Barton, jsonline.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • James Corden may not have been the first person to spank Donald Trump, but that doesn’t make the moment any less memorable.
    — Tierney McAfee, PEOPLE.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • There’s plenty of evidence that shows spanking kids does more harm than good.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Then they got spanked by the struggling Cardinals, resulting in a sweep.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • And, more recently, who could forget Stormy Daniels’s claims of Trump asking to be spanked with a Forbes issue that bore his face on the cover?
    — Lucas Mann, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Also add to the mix that Trump’s favorite magazine to be spanked with just named Bezos the top billionaire.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The researchers paired subjects who had and had not been spanked at 5 years old but were equivalent on 38 other factors.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017

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