How to Use spanking in a Sentence

spanking

adjective
  • Whether the ideas of Pielke etc are old or spanking brand new is beside the point.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2010
  • Rose tests out a spanking bench, while Mike, her general contractor, doles out his own gentle whippings.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 July 2022
  • These are hard-to-excuse deficiencies in a spanking-new design, but this Saab is hardly a loser.
    — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
  • On today's 5 Things podcast, reporter Sarah Elbeshbishi explains how spanking at school is still legal in over a dozen states.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Alexander Skarsgård has a spanking new romantic comedy.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The third of the three big product releases from Apple this week to be reviewed is the new Apple TV with its spanking new remote control.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • Lizzo knows how to bring Christmas joy, surprising her mother with a spanking new car and posting the joyous unveiling on Instagram on Sunday.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Still, a number of individual studies have found associations between spanking and negative outcomes, even after controlling for preexisting child behavior.
    — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 3 May 2016
  • More surprising was the number of brand-spanking-new brands, like Frenchtown Farms, Subject to Change, Absentee and Vin de California, all launched since 2015.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018

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