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How to use smack in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adverb

Smack means a distinct flavor, especially if slight. Example: “Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.”

Examples of smack by meaning

nounA distinct flavor, especially if slight.

  • rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon

nounSynonym of heroin.

  • Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191

verbTo indicate or suggest something; used with of.

  • Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.

nounA small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a...

  • He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats.1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 39
  • But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.2009, Simon Schama, The American Future: A History

nounA group of jellyfish.

  • In November 2007, a 16-square-kilometer smack of jellyfish at a depth of 35 feet invaded the Northern Salmon Company, Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing more than 100,000 fish at a cost of more than $2 million.2017, Bruce E. Johansen, Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science, Society, and Solutions, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • As we paddled we passed a smack of jellyfish2008, Sean Stanley, Etcetera and Otherwise, Tightrope Books, page 55
  • Smacks of jellyfish are like genderless gangs.2017, Heather Davis, editor, Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, page 61

adverbAs if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.

  • Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave.
  • She fell smack on her face.

More sentences with smack

  • Warner smacked a four over midwicket to bring up his century.From the entry bring up
  • Did you see her lay the smack down on the bouncer?From the entry lay the smack down
  • What you really want is a good smack!From the entry want
  • He smacked me around some. Didn't everybody's old man?From the entry old man
  • Watch out or Brody'll lay the smack down.From the entry lay the smack down
  • He smacked out clouds of dust by striking the rug.From the entry smack out
  • That child needs a smack on the btm!From the entry btm
  • Then in added time Uchenna Kanu smacked a header off the top of the bar.2023 August 7, Suzanne Wrack, “England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach Women’s World Cup quarter-finals”, in The Guardian. From the entry ricochet
  • I fall onto the table and smack a set of supply drawers with my shin.2021, Andy Weir, chapter 1, in Project Hail Mary: A Novel, Ballantine Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry motherfluffer
  • She preferred a swift smack on the hinnerdale with the spatula.2019 June 25, Jennifer Beckstrand, Andrew, Zebra Books, →ISBN. From the entry hinnerdale
  • I smack my lips, elixir rolling in my belly like molten gold.2015, Viola Carr, “The Art of Making a Point”, in The Devious Dr. Jekyll, Harper Voyager, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry hellbrew
  • XD Anyways, totes introduce yourself and talk smack here and whatever else you want.2015 April 24, u/cheesequake404, Reddit, r/furry. From the entry milfur
  • Girls, smokes, bit of smack, mossing, tweedling; a very democratic villain, Mr Salvatore.2014, Dan Kavanagh, Duffy. From the entry tweedle
  • A wet, sloppy, hairy thing hit me smack in the face.2014, C.E. Danielson, “They Put Me in the Cuckoo Bin”, in The Misfortune, Manifestation, and Revelation of Onesiphorus Wood, Kila, Mont.…. From the entry whoopsies
  • Warsaw made me mute and clueless, but, I had to admit, the place smacked of home.2014, Laura Silver, Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, Waltham, M.A.: Brandeis University Press, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry cebularz
  • Either way, it smacks of something a cut above the crowd.2013 February 21, turretslug, UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum. From the entry valver
  • After about 20 seconds, he ended his performance with a punctuative smack of the taut drum heads.2009 September 13, Kirk Semple, “Giving Ramadan a Drumroll in Brooklyn at 4 A.M.”, in New York Times. From the entry punctuative
  • King's essay smacks of a citycentric view that suggests that authentic experiences are impossible in the suburbs.2008 April, Dwell, volume 8, number 5, page 39. From the entry citycentric
  • "And I would dress smack daddy down." Tawanda throws her head back, laughing.2005, Michele McKnight Baker, Sandpaper Sisters, FaithWalk Publishing, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry stepper
  • That smacks of cozy dealings between the government and the tycoons . . . .2005 January 17, Chaim Estulin, “Hong Kong's New Culture”, in Time. From the entry big business
  • From outside the wagon I can hear the very distinct smack of wood meeting flesh and bone.2003, Mark Pogrebin, Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice: Perspectives from the Field, SAGE, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 366. From the entry nigger-knocker
  • This aspect of monitoring may smack of draconianism or Taylorism, but it is not.2002, Carolyn J. Downey; Fenwick W. English; Larry E. Frase; R. Gerald Melton; William K. Poston, Jr.; Betty E. Steffy, “Strategy…. From the entry draconianism
  • And I was talking smack, cracking jokes, playing with Mateo the host.2001, Mark Rackers, Nesting, page 185. From the entry talk smack
  • "If I don't protect the baby, the bears will smack her up."2001, Craig Lesley, Storm Riders. From the entry smack up
  • They might even smack her up a bit but not too much.1997, Lorraine Johnson-Coleman, Just plain folks. From the entry smack up
  • A half-mile away, we slowed down and were slapping hands and talking smack, so impressed with ourselves.1996, Christopher A. Darden, Jess Walter, In Contempt, page 49. From the entry talk smack
  • The new sales pitch for S.D.I. runs smack up against the recommendations of Mr.1987 August 31, Howard Ris, “Don't Buy the S.D.I. Soap”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2022. From the entry SDI
  • Her conversation is full of choccy bics, smack the botty, toothypegs, lovely choccy and Mr.1984, John Russell Brown, Modern British Dramatists, New Perspectives. From the entry toothypegs
  • Yet even in this personal agonising, I fought shy of anything that smacked of fanatical lonerism.1984, Ciaran McKeown, The Passion of Peace, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, →ISBN, page 268. From the entry lonerism
  • I said to myself, there is still some smack of old England left in the land.1924, Arthur Machen [pseudonym; Arthur Llewellyn Jones], chapter IV, in The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering, London: Martin…. From the entry pease

Meaning of smack

  1. noun A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
  2. noun A slight trace of something; a smattering.
  3. noun Synonym of heroin.

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Questions about smack in a sentence

How do you use smack in a sentence?
Smack is used as a noun, verb and adverb. For example: “Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.”
What is a short sentence with smack?
“Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.”
What does smack mean?
Smack means a distinct flavor, especially if slight.

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