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Examples of slap shot in a Sentence
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The home horn blasted six minutes in for the Cats on Sam Reinhart’s slap shot that Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy partially blocked but could not contain.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2024
Miller scored from the right faceoff circle on a slap shot for his 31st of the season.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Doughty made it 5-1 with 23 seconds remaining in the game on a slap shot.
—Joe Reedy, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
The Wings built on that two minutes later when Walman took a pass from David Perron and directed a slap shot on net.
—Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
Doughty salvaged a point for Los Angeles by burying a power-play slap shot during a six-on-four advantage with 1:58 remaining in the third period to tie it 3-3.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
That’s when Eriksson Ek scored his team-leading 22nd goal of the season — sixth in his past five games and eighth on the power play — by deflecting a slap shot by Kirill Kaprizov past Juuse Saros.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2024
Gostisbehere had the Wings'' only chance during the man advantage, ripping a slap shot that Sergei Bobrovsky turned aside.
—Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2024
The defenseman unwound a slap shot, ripping the puck from the blue line to pick up his second goal of the season.
—Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1924, in the meaning defined above
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“Slap shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slap%20shot. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
slap shot
noun
: a hard shot in ice hockey that is made with a swinging stroke
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