How to Use whack in a Sentence

whack

1 of 2 verb

• She whacked the piñata with a stick.
• The old man lifted his cane and whacked the mugger on the head.
• He got whacked by mobsters.
• They were whacking through the jungle with their machetes.
• Spread the cloves on a cutting board and whack them with a heavy pot.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 June 2019
• The line refers to a scene from the movie in which Clemenza and Rocco whack Paulie.
  — al, 27 July 2021
• One by one, whack each egg all over with the spoon and return it to the ice water.
  — Andy Baraghani, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• His son tackles one of them and Hutch has a chance to whack one of them with a golf club.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2021
• But she got whacked by the side of the inflatable’s white hair, and fell flat on her back.
  — Fox News, 30 Nov. 2019
• New punter Cameron Johnston must have whacked about a half dozen punts off the top.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
• The puck laid in the slot, where Jeffrey Viel tried to whack it past the Swedish netminder.
  — Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2021
• Schofield whacked Wood across the face as Wood attempted a dunk.
  — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2019
• Choose the whip, for instance, to whack enemies in melee range in front of you.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2022
• Method 1: Cut the pomegranate in half and whack it with a wooden spoon.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 3 Oct. 2018
• Scrambling to secure one of the 62 slots feels like playing whack-a-mole.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• Be prepared for your teen to get the swing of it quickly and go wild with whacking the birdies back to you.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
• Throw in the monkey wrench that is a new playoff format which is, well, whack.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
• Morgan almost sprung Heath with a lead ball down the right, but Leon got there first and whacked it out of bounds.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• The Supreme Court has been playing whack-a-mole with agency overreach for a long time.
  — Dallas News, 31 July 2022
• An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
  — Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
• Ethan was able save his mother from the animal by whacking the deer in the head with a slab of wood.
  — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2019
• Thomas appeared to lower his head and whack Young’s facemask with the front of his helmet.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 17 Oct. 2022
• The rookie whacked his 10th home run in the second inning and deposited a bloop single in the fifth.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Of course, whacking long strands of polyester rope on the ground in my driveway is pretty silly as well.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2020
• The younger one, who wears a bright red stocking cap, whacks the bear of a guy across his face, sending him careening to the side.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Aldridge repeatedly whacks Cure in the thigh with a baton.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Yet this whack-a-mole cost-cutting alone won’t suffice.
  — Clint Boulton, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• In selecting the hit man to whack Jimmy Hoffa, The Mafia don chose his very best offer.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• After a clean second inning, Scott Kingery whacked a fastball over the plate for a leadoff home run in the third.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• However, if the answer is wrong, the ball will fall and whack the player into the pool below.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024

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whack

2 of 2 noun

• The pile of books hit the floor with a whack.
• The smallest wrong move can send a disk out of whack, Frese added.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 26 Jan. 2023
• But these efforts can be akin to a game of whack-a-mole.
  — Filippo Menczer, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
• The last time the measure looked out of whack was before the 2008 housing crash.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
• Are the gears a little gunky and slow-moving or out of whack?
  — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• In such a small town, any influx can throw the market out of whack.
  — Nic Querolo, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
• The hijinks grow wearisome; the ratio of real laughs to dead spots is out of whack.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• Dance being a touring art form, the whole supply chain is out of whack.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
• Enrollment is also out of whack at the city’s high schools.
  — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Chagossians led the way inland with a rhythmic whack of machetes.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• In an economy of scale, the aesthetics of scale can get out of whack.
  — The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• Every whack job on the planet Earth comes out on big cases.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Sure enough, every level having to do with the liver was out of whack.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• The two go hand-in-hand, and if one is out of whack, overall hydration suffers.
  — Melissa Matthews, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
• But the dynamic that led the Cubs to signing him in 2020 became out of whack at Myrtle Beach.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
• In some races even that may not be expected to be as close, things might look out of whack early.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• One good whack delivered by, say, a pandemic, and the whole thing seizes up.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 13 Oct. 2021
• Step back: The domestic pork supply chain was one of quickest to get knocked out of whack when Covid-19 hit.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
• And by the time of Dune’s events, that balance of power is dangerously out of whack.
  — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2021
• No one has to tell anyone who shops for groceries or pays the rent that inflation is out of whack.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2022
• Only the measures in China are even further out of whack.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
• So honestly, everything is out of whack right now and these things have to stop.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022
• And that attractive appendage is about to throw Blanco’s scale out of whack.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• So price elasticity, along with the demand curve, is out of whack.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• If your only training attention goes to what's in front of you, your whole physique will be thrown out of whack.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 26 July 2022
• Burry’s social media presence is akin to a game of whack-a-mole.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
• The global economy is out of whack and governments aren't sure what to do.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• So when Barbara asked me to take a whack at it, it wasn’t really supposed to be that tethered and that much of an homage.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
• Sometimes an angler can feel a bass whack the stick worm and other times the angler will notice the line moving as a bass swims off with the lure.
  — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Strong employment growth and home prices that aren’t out of whack relative to local incomes will keep Southern markets above the rest.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024