How to Use slap with in a Sentence

slap with

phrasal verb
  • There are all sorts of films that have been slapped with an NC-17 for no reason.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024
  • You can be slapped with a $270 fine for walking around in your swimwear outside of the beach.
    — Ronny Maye, Essence, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Anyone caught smoking in a smoke-free area can be slapped with a fine of up to $50.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And if not, they’d be slapped with an antitrust lawsuit.
    — Gal Luft, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
  • In just the first week of April, the county was slapped with at least three new lawsuits by people who say they were abused as teens.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • After two years in business, Bodega has been slapped with a cease-and-desist.
    — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 15 July 2024
  • Apple and Goldman Sachs were slapped with an $89 million fine.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2024
  • How many were near Altadena? Big Ass Fans were slapped with fat fines for false claims about their clean air products.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Saga’s jockey rode him to a fifth-place finish, and was slapped with a ban after for careless riding.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
  • In early August, he was slapped with charges for his actions to try to overturn the 2020 election results.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • On Tuesday, the jockey astride the couple’s horse Saga was slapped with a nine-day ban for careless riding in the Wolferton Stakes, where the duo finished fifth.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • That’s right: Majeski got slapped with a fine just days before the biggest race of his career, all for voting.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The blow-ups have led to financiers being banned, people jailed and banks slapped with fines for poor internal controls.
    — Bernadette Toh, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • The prop department provided the guitar; Fey’s hair was slicked back, her mouth slapped with lipstick.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Along with the criminal complaint, he also was slapped with a lawsuit from Pagar in 2021.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • For existing users, dealing with all these problems and then being slapped with a price increase has got to sting.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
  • China will be slapped with an additional 10% tariff on the same date.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
  • One of the five men convicted in the 2022 drugging and robbery of patrons at gay bars in Manhattan was slapped with eight years in prison on Thursday.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Violators could get slapped with a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 29 May 2023
  • One downer, though, it got slapped with a C- CinemaScore.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Wallen was also slapped with a $350 fine and court fees for the incident, which occurred in April at fellow country singer Eric Church's bar, Chief's.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Alba, clearly frustrated, was slapped with a pair of yellow cards four minutes apart late in the game and Miami had to finish the game with 10 men.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Then the tables turned, and Ms. Oh was the one slapped with an accusation of serious misconduct.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Trump trials: Donald Trump was slapped with a partial gag order in the New York hush money case that bars him from talking about witnesses and court staffers in the case.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Bank of America was slapped with a consent order from the Office of Comptroller of the Currency.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Even the most disturbing and explicit horror films, or the most gruesome action films, are never slapped with an NC-17.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The business was slapped with an F grade after failing to respond to questions about the spate of complaints from San Diego County homeowners.
    — Jeff McDonald, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • He was slapped with dozens of charges, arrested and sentenced to prison in three different cases, sending shockwaves through the country.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The Cincinnati Bengals’ Tee Higgins saw every player who was slapped with the franchise tag this offseason get rich … except for him.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • Winter is tightening its icy grip across much of the country, with a string of states slapped with weather warnings this week amid fears of treacherous conditions.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024

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