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37 examples of Smack in a sentence

Fruit of the tree of such knowledge To smack (thin air) meaning kiss or hit.
"Smack" can mean "kiss" as in air kisses, as in lip-smacking, but that can lead to "smack" as in "hit" as in domestic abuse, because sexual attraction can seem threatening.
And outworn usages like "smack" for "kiss" or "hit" can help us see how our unacknowledged assumptions can make us believe we are bad, either because sex is sinful or because we tolerate so much sexism.
It's what made you smack your baby brother, stamp on a cockroach, scratch your mother.
Walk up to it and smack it on the backside."
sidney portier's character is so sweet and lovable you want to smack him.
You can tell he basically wanted to smack the hell out of Doug Masters the whole movie.
I could smack the guy and it is so sad he didn't die earlier and in the end he even comes back.
The kind of movie that makes you want to go and smack the movie maker and say "WHY?".
I keep on defending the Dutch and Belgian cinema and claim that it should get more credit and chances...and then they smack you around the head with junk like this! Intensive Care is a terrible production and probably the worst thing that was ever made in the Dutch-speaking countries.
I'd like to smack the people who tell me it's the scariest movie ever made.
She is always demanding things, trying too hard to be "cute", is constantly saying "DUH!" and rolling her eyes which makes you want to smack her.
I just wanted to smack that little girl because, well lets just say, she's real suspicious all the way through the movie.
I shall continue suffering for at least 30 minutes a week, until I have a light-bulb moment and smack myself in the head shouting "Eureka".
At a family dinner at Karen's parents' home, Paul runs smack into Becky again, learning that she is Karen's cousin.
His acting is plain brilliant -- if you can call it acting: he's one of those performers that you watch and smack your head in awe of how extraordinary he is.
Marisa is on the telephone, and it looks like a big black adult toy is about to smack Ms. Tomei in the noggin.
He's a sex obsessed, lewd, crude and tedious little brat whose every word makes you want to reach into the movie and smack him in the face.
This is not a movie for the unobservant, if you need the joke to come up and smack you in the face you'll be bored.
There are some works which smack of being surreal just for the sake of being surreal, where you get the feeling the artist just got tired and threw anything together mindlessly in the hopes that someone will come across it and yell "Eureka!
It's actually my only real beef with the movie, as I wanted to smack him around for being such a moron for breaking up with her in the first place!
It's a New York-set film with some authentic-looking locations (and others that smack of Toronto), but the only Main Street in the five boroughs is in Flushing, and these bar patrons are definitely not East Queens stock.
Someone ought to smack the writers around for copying.
Mr. Connolly's bad day is not over because he takes off from work in search of adventure and runs smack into Sharon Stone.
After seeing this I want to smack myself for every time that I've ever complained.
Compromise would smack of weakness.
Such targets smack of the legacy of a state-directed economy – a legacy that runs counter to policymakers’ new emphasis on the “decisive role” of markets.
Since I have never had either the benefits or misfortunes of adhering to any religion, it might smack of hypocrisy for me to defend those who have.
Recently, however, Russian politics witnessed a spate of political marriages, some tactical, some "shotgun" unions that smack of desperation.
This is not a stick, but a boomerang – one that will hit China and immediately return to smack the US.