How to Use whack in a Sentence

whack

1 of 2 verb
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  • 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 | Nalvarez@al.com, 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
  • From this point on, our machete-wielding porters whack a shoulder-wide path straight up the fall line toward the ridgetop.
    — Peter Frick-Wright, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2019
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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
  • The politics are, to use a technical phrase, a little whack.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • And when the dust settles, that wages-to-inflation ratio will continue to be out of whack.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 6 June 2022

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