How to Use a slap in the face in a Sentence

a slap in the face

noun phrase

• Seeing that the group receives such a low level of investment already, the suit was a slap in the face for many.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Sep. 2023
• But that helping hand is being withdrawn, and parents are bracing for a slap in the face this Sept. 30.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
• To people who must still take precautions for health reasons, the fact that signs are still up, only to be ignored, can feel like a slap in the face.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
• At this point, keeping him in the house would be a slap in the face to every person who has stood up for or tried to change the racist allegations that the show has experienced in the past.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• Why travelers with disabilities say the public emergency's end feels like a slap in the face.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• But Destinee Lynn is, with a gripping flow that hits like a slap in the face or a jab in the nose (depending on the sentiment), aided by succinct lyricism that goes straight for the throat — or the heart.
  — Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2024
• Without providing any great alternatives for people who live within L.A., this is just a slap in the face.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• The decision comes as a slap in the face for Hun Sen, who had regularly posted on Facebook to his 14 million followers.
  — Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
• General manager James Click declined a one-year contract—viewed as a slap in the face after winning the World Series—and walked away from the organization.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Other pieces portray harsher realities, such as the occasional shock when friendship turns into a slap in the face, hair pulling, or fighting.
  — Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2023
• Fans immediately and aggressively lambasted the move, calling it a slap in the face to viewers and citing the recent Rooster Teeth shutdown as an example of why this model is doomed to fail.
  — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024