How to Use slap with in a Sentence

slap with

verb
  • He has been slapped with dozens of charges, including 15 counts of murder.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • When the tomatoes arrived, they were slapped with a 17% tariff.
    — Matt Sedensky, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • Reality doesn’t slap with soft gloves.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Are the countries Trump has slapped with a huge tariff going to send us their data?
    — Mike Stobbe, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Are the countries Trump has slapped with a huge tariff going to send us their data?
    — Mike Stobbe, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Are the countries Trump has slapped with a huge tariff going to send us their data?
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • He was called to the stewards and slapped with a one-race ban that rules him out of Sunday's Grand Prix.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026
  • With gates, there would be no misunderstanding about being in the park after hours — and violators could get slapped with up to a $75 fine.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
  • Rarely is that cloud because the team just had its second-round pick that's just a month away, yoinked from them, and the coach was slapped with a $100,000 fine.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • And while Mamdani longs for a future of free Big Apple trips, riders will instead be getting slapped with price hikes in a matter of days.
    — Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Another 7 countries were slapped with partial restrictions.
    — Alana Wise, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Also, the $80 million film was slapped with a C+ CinemaScore.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Olsen and another attorney were slapped with $122,200 in legal sanctions.
    — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • He was previously slapped with a 45-day sentence in 2024 for breaking the terms of his supervised release.
    — Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • If the power conferences attempted to deny access to the Group of Six, they would get slapped with an antitrust lawsuit within seconds.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • In the midst of that second drought, the one that decided the game, Cronin was slapped with a technical after watching Donovan Dent drive the lane and get hammered with no call.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Even prestigious law firms are being humiliated, with some perpetrators getting slapped with fines and facing discipline from the Bar.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 June 2026
  • As condo owners have been slapped with high fees and assessments that make their units difficult to sell, Zalewski expects people to start unloading their units and taking major losses.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 29 Dec. 2025
  • While Senegal bore the brunt of CAF’s punishment, Morocco has also been slapped with several penalties.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
  • He was slapped with a $14,491 fine for using a violent gesture (throat slash) back in Week 9’s win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
    — Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Chief Financial Officer Bianka Brown was also slapped with 20 felony counts, officials added.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In early February, the all-girls Christian summer camp was slapped with its fifth lawsuit — this one from the family of 8-year-old Cile Steward, a camper who has yet to be found.
    — Karen Hua, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Around the same time, Bellum’s troubles began to make headlines, and the company was eventually slapped with dozens of wage claims lawsuits in Los Angeles County.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Cory Mills, slapped with a restraining order and generating one controversy after another, is facing calls for expulsion from Congress.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In 2018, Bethune-Cookman University’s historic school of nursing was slapped with probation after too many of its graduates failed to pass the test on their first attempt.
    — South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 20 May 2026
  • The man accused of randomly setting a woman on fire while on a Chicago transit train this week has been slapped with a federal terrorism charge, marking the latest instance of violence on public transit that continues to plague the country.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Large Institutional investors who sell single-family homes more than 18 months after the bill's enactment would be slapped with a real estate transfer tax equal to 100% of the home's sale value.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2026
  • While the $375 million penalty it was slapped with pales in comparison to the $200 billion of revenue Meta made in 2025, the jury’s decision was a sign of what was still in store.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Jonathan Velez was slapped with charges of assault and reckless endangerment Wednesday for allegedly punching Manuel Rivera, his 39-year-old cousin, to the ground near Rockaway Blvd.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The 24-year-old man who allegedly perpetrated the terror attack in Australia on Sunday with his 50-year-old father was slapped with charges on Wednesday, according to news releases.
    — Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Dec. 2025

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