How to Use spank in a Sentence

spank

verb

• The Rangers got spanked by the Royals on Thursday night by a score of 8-2.
  — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 25 May 2018
• The Dolphins should end their three-game skid and spank the Steelers in this one.
  — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
• That’s like giving someone a hug and a spanking them at the same time. ...
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 14 June 2023
• Oregon looks like one of the best teams in the country while spanking the Buffaloes.
  — oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2019
• Just watch her try to figure out the best angle to spank herself.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 29 June 2019
• Newsom rolled over so the boy was on top of his chest rather than the court and playfully spanked him with a smile.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2023
• The Kowboys spanked the Titans by 20 a year ago, but the rematch looks to be more challenging.
  — Buddy Collings, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Schnepper said that his client, whose name was not released by police, did not spank the child.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 23 Dec. 2017
• The Dolphins are trying to lose, and had a locker-room mutiny after they were spanked, 59-10, by the Ravens in the opener last week.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• As the Sentence trailer teases, Stella doesn’t even know her husband likes to be spanked in bed.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Back in October, the Hawks opened the season spanking those Penguins 10-1.
  — Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Maybe getting popped upside my head or spanked or sent to my room for six hours isn’t really good for my kid.
  — Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 19 June 2017
• One couple taught the children to play the piano, while another spanked them and forced them to listen to Bible readings.
  — Gina Barton, jsonline.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• There’s plenty of evidence that shows spanking kids does more harm than good.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
• Then they got spanked by the struggling Cardinals, resulting in a sweep.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• The researchers paired subjects who had and had not been spanked at 5 years old but were equivalent on 38 other factors.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
• Kentucky is one of 19 states that still allow the practice, but many school districts no longer spank or paddle students.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 5 Mar. 2020
• The question becomes, how does spanking in school affect children long term?
  — Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
• They were spanked 37-21 by Kansas City under interim head coach Gregg Williams.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
• So Gershoff says that in spite of the lingering controversy, the safest approach parents can take is not to spank their kids.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 3 May 2016
• Eric Goodman has been identified as the guy who pretended to spank me and kiss me during the live shot Friday.
  — Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2019
• But the Mountaineers bounced back to spank North Carolina State last weekend and are flying high entering a week off.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
• Coy poses and looks abound, and she shamelessly gets spanked by the Easter Bunny -- once with a big carrot, once without.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2018
• In Soviet preschool, our teachers had spanked us, we would get yelled at for e.g., not having the motor skills to embroider the Kremlin.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 July 2022
• Less often, though often enough that the practice has its own name, quote-tweets are used to roast and clown on people — to trot them out in front of a new audience, drop their pants and spank them.
  — Willy Staley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• That’s part of the reason why Lexus (with four utility pods) is so soundly spanking Cadillac (which has only two).
  — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Parents in some districts have to opt out of letting teachers spank their kids, though that can result in suspension.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2022
• De Niro’s character, William Hale, is Ernest’s uncle and decides to punish his nephew by bending him over and spanking him.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023
• Opener Marlo also ribbed several people in the crowd, and even invited a man to spank her butt.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018