How to Use slap around in a Sentence
slap around
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For decades, the Mai Tai had been slapped around by careless bartenders.
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Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
13 Sep. 2025
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The agents appeared to know young Markell was losing weight, forced to eat crappy food, whipped with a belt and slapped around.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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Then last week the J’s went to play a mediocre Jacksonville team and got slapped around in every phase.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2025
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Tykes get slapped around, shot with arrows and dangled in traffic — tortures that are played seriously, but the shock of them allows you to guffaw.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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To read a profile of Weiss is to be slapped around the face by the names of élite admirers; those now include the Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose Saturnalian wedding Weiss attended in Venice this year.
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Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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