How to Use wallop in a Sentence

wallop

1 of 2 verb
  • I was so angry I felt like walloping him.
  • Gove will have a lot on his plate if winter wallops the city.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Still, that’s the dead horse that has been walloped and clubbed for much of the last two months.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • This year, the field cleared the deck for For Good, lest they be walloped.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Told with what feels like a light touch until its tragic themes wallop you upside the head.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 22 Mar. 2022
  • That defender has to be strong enough not to get walloped, and long enough to make any contest at all.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • California has been walloped by a series of storms in the past year.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Hip-hop, by then a dynamic subculture, was walloped but would not be set back.
    — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And this would be the third weekend in a row the Northeast gets walloped by heavy rainfall.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Many nor'easters – big storms that wallop the East Coast – are the product of bomb cyclones.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Any balls found wanting will be chucked away, while the ones deemed acceptable are duly thrown into the air and walloped across the net.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Matthews added two assists as Toronto walloped the Ducks 9-2.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Everything else just gets walloped by new GPU options that cost scads less.
    — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 12 July 2019
  • Grocery shoppers have been walloped over the past year with sharply higher costs for eggs, butter, meat and other pantry basics.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 May 2023
  • On a crucial third down, Jackson dropped back and was walloped by Michael Danna.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Eryn Dion Rhode Island is in the midst of being walloped by heavy snow and gusting winds.
    — Katie Landeck, The Providence Journal, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Eryn Dion Rhode Island is in the midst of being walloped by heavy snow and gusting winds.
    — Katie Landeck, The Providence Journal, 22 Feb. 2026
  • California got walloped by a tropical storm for the first time in 84 years.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Nothing like being able to absolutely wallop someone to break up a double play, or score a run.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
  • Illinois residents have been walloped by surging health insurance costs this year.
    — Barbara Hoare, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.
    — Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Ricci, who noted his tea was too hot to drink at the time, is seen walloping the man in the face with the beverage before pulling out his own firearm.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The upper Midwest was walloped with such storm systems, especially over the last six weeks.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • With so much of the country being walloped by winter weather right now, any indication that spring is on the way is a welcome one.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Torrential rain will deluge parts of the Southeast this week as swaths of the Northwest will get walloped by feet of snow.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Instead, the Lancers got beat, got walloped actually, 7-0, on their own field.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • The rapidly forming storm packing 100 miles per hour wind gusts walloped Oregon.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The comic sold a walloping 150,000 copies.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Hillsides, valleys, and mountains stretch widely across the game's field of view, and the game is keen to wallop you over the head with its enormous scale every step of the way.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 1 July 2020
  • And even the smallest nibble wallops with a potent vegetal bitterness.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026

wallop

2 of 2 noun
  • The subtext of the tomb scene alone packs a wallop.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Then came the biggest wallop of all.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2026
  • In due time, the wallop arrives.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 19 June 2026
  • Kroll gets a wallop, Agnes gets a drink thrown in her face, and the two fight.
    — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Carey's percussion grew from soft rolling taps to kick drum wallops.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Indeed, the last few weeks have seen late-night TV take quite the wallop.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • And the wallop, of course, was nothing personal, was well meant and all that.
    — Diane Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • This Afghan braise stars not just spinach as the green blast, but also a wallop of green onions and cilantro.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But nothing at Wawa packs a bigger wallop than the meatball sub.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • The twin edge rushers might pack a wallop that leaves their targets seeing double.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Pixar’s full of raw and powerful moments that pull our heartstrings, but this one packs a wallop.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 17 June 2022
  • Most of the precipitation came from a quick wallop of rain at the very end of April.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • But plenty of the global economy still runs on the burning of crude, and a price spike can still pack a wallop.
    — David Dayen, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
  • But what a glorious sound and clatter-bang wallop of emotions and feelings.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2021
  • This is so not a horror movie—not scary in the slightest—but its ending packs an unforgiving wallop.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the recent twists have carried more of a wallop, breathing some life into the show, if not bringing it back to its peak.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Today’s recipe is for a style of chicken that carries so much flavor that its wallop has become somewhat of a rage.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Today, they're being bid up as investors ponder, wait a second, there isn't yet a wallop of bad news, so why not buy the dip?
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2021
  • But horseflies pack the biggest wallop, often drawing a wheal worthy of a hornet.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2020
  • And now, both new and longtime viewers can tune in as the eagles endeavor to keep their eggs warm from a wallop of wintry weather.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Even for those visitors for whom the reference was unfamiliar, the work still packed a wallop.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Minnesotans are preparing for a winter wallop.
    — Chloe Rosen, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • By the end of February, the emotional wallop of Li’s death seemed to be fading.
    — Paul Mozur, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2020
  • In a movie willing to shed blood and tears to prove that point, Shyamalan’s sincerity packs the biggest wallop.
    — Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • These ingredients pack a deep wallop of umami, and using pickled peppers in lieu of chile flakes lends brightness as well as heat.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But all the preparation and set visits couldn’t prepare the women for the emotional wallop of watching the movie for the first time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Thanks to Taylor Hawkins on the drumkit, the Foos never lacked wallop either.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 4 July 2022
  • But a sharp drop in oil and gas prices in 2014 delivered an unexpected wallop.
    — Author: Patricia Cohen, Robert Gebeloff, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The nor’easter is now beginning to hit much of Southern New England with a wallop of snow and heavy rain.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Cachou Lajaunie are black, square pastilles about the size of a stud earring that pack an enormous menthol-y, licorice-y wallop.
    — Mackenzie Fegan, Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2020

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