How to Use slammer in a Sentence

slammer

noun

• Fans behind the Slammers dugout stood and clapped for Shane Bryant as the Joliet right-hander walked off the field.
  — Tim Tierney, Daily Southtown, 23 June 2017
• Instead of being grateful for the break, Saffell yelled to take him to the slammer, deputies said.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 July 2017
• Mike Tyson, serving a year in the slammer for assault, is making a career change.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 12 Apr. 1999
• On the back end of both of those stats sits newly minted All-Star closer Kirby Yates, an elite door slammer.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• Fried and baked fish, pizza, famous DeSales slammer, mac and cheese.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2020
• That La Helmsley would go on to spend 21 months in the slammer for tax evasion should not distract us from the basic truth of her statement.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Willie Singletary, the former Traffic Court judge who went to the slammer for lying to the feds, is campaigning, too.
  — Holly Otterbein, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Blankenship, who did time in the slammer for his part in a deadly mining accident that killed 29 people, hasn’t gone away.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• If watching Woods struggle on the golf course in recent years was fun, there's nothing like seeing him before a booking cam on his way to the slammer.
  — Ap, USA TODAY, 30 May 2017
• If watching Woods struggle on the golf course in recent years was fun, there’s nothing like seeing him before a booking cam on his way to the slammer.
  — Tim Dahlberg, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
• Others involved in the investigation who took a plea deal were only put in the slammer for five to seven years.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• But if Blankenship makes it through the GOP primary, voters will have to come to grips with his decidedly mixed legacy, and his stretch in the slammer.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Mar. 2018
• What’s curious is that she was given a time-out in the slammer for what ordinarily could be just a ticket.
  — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2017
• The scoop slam The scoop slam involves the slammer reaching between an opponent's legs and around their back, lifting them up and turning the opponent upside down before dropping them to the mat.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 25 May 2017
• Voters may once have looked at those violations as business-as-usual for pols, but over time, the penalties have morphed from mere fines to slammer-time — and likelier to sway voters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley checked herself into the slammer in 1989 for tax mistakes.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
• The flurry of tweets began at 8:02 a.m. with a tweet about the Montana congressional race won by Republican body slammer Greg Gianforte.
  — Peter Wade, Esquire, 28 May 2017
• Prisons stopped accepting new arrivals, and courts sent fewer people to the slammer, resulting in most of the overall decrease in the prison population between March and June 2020.
  — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2021
• Actually, a good protestor expects time in the slammer.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
• Then frolic through our adult playground featuring a mechanical shark ride, surf board riding, grand slammer, human bowling, jousting, beer pong tables, corn hole, and more.
  — baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
• The white-collar probe took on a dark specter in September, when Garrison, an allegedly prolific slammer, was shot dead at age 54 inside his apartment in the Gentilly neighborhood.
  — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• Of course, not all problem paterfamiliases make unwanted advances (à la Weinstein, allegedly) or end up in the slammer (à la Weiner).
  — Lucinda Rosenfeld, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2017
• Authorities claim Hickman played a central role as organizer, slammer and spotter, including pretending to be a witness to accidents staged by others.
  — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024