Swack

[…]they needed nothing more than a good swack against a boulder.

The ball flew between them at incredible speed, hitting off their pads with a swack! that could be heard clearly above the steady splattering of the rain.

But with its impact, a sound similar to a swack! emanated from the ring and echoed throughout the gym.

The rest of his ragged company remained seated, their heads low, staring at the earth, panting in the thin air. There was no sound but the swack - swack of the machete.

But just then, they heard a swack and a man cried, “Ouch!”

And Cyndi Lauper is ecstatic, first leaping up in the air and then, for good measure, racing over to give Fabulous Moolah a swack for good luck.

As Molly caught up with him she grabbed the lamprey and yanked. The mouth popped away from J.T.'s body with a swack.

He walks up behind me and plants a kiss firmly between where my ear and jawline meet. The swack reverberates in my eardrum.

But rain splatting against the bus window and the swack - swacking sound of the big windshield wipers up front punched me awake.

An area rug can supply the zing of pattern or a swack of color to a room that languishes from blandness .

Nothing to say, the oilcloth moans under the swack of Mother's sponge.

She's taken a swack at you, accusing you of ruining your child. It is anger. Don't return it.

But the severity and brutality of Israeli repression in the Occupied Territories against ordinary people who have nothing to do with extremist activities is far more than the “swack” of frustration Frohlich describes.

We are certainly delighted to see you take another swack at microfilm and are sending our Chapter 14 on the subject.

If we took too much at one time, we'd tip the police that we have operating motor vehicles. Instead, we steal it ten gallons at a swack.

I'm not sure how I feel about taking on the whole Establishment in one swack.

You have more swack with their management than they do, the same way you have more swack with foreign leaders than any of the Ambassadors that you talked to.

What the French criticize," says Le Monde, after a swack at Coca-Cola,“ is not so much Coca-Cola, as its orchestration, less the drink itself than the civilization of which it is a mark and the symbol.

When Oscar charged the tyrant Loth, Their spears both in flinders flew; Syne swacked they swords in deidly wroth, But a churl behind King Oscar slew!

The tide was swacking its heart out on the snarls of rocks that intermittently crocheted the coast line.

Now Baker has been chided quite a bit for his method of treatment for the seeming barbarity of strapping the patients down and swacking them out.

The buyers then carry them home, swinging the rope and shouting, "Bettara! Bettara!" to warn people to step aside or risk having their holiday clothes swacked with the sticky pickles.

Your brother's no hero," Nick told him, shaking plaster snow from his own dark hair and swacking it off his faded denim shirt and jeans.

I wondered if I should tell the truth, always a dangerous tactic with women, as they usually retaliated by swacking you over the head with an even more devastating truth about yourself .

My father gleefully took this as a challenge to his tennis skill, unpacked his racquet, and swacked every flying mammal within reach.

With his next move he swacked his ball passed the wicket and was on his way to the next one.

"Rose" looked upon him with unfriendly eye, as his swacking bill-hook would be likely to affright her game.

The windshield wipers were swacking rapidly back and forth in a hopeless attempt to clear away the sheets of water.

Ho has a very peculiar way of swacking his lips, and frequently talks of a mutton chop, and how he likes it cooked .

At any rate, motoring is not even as you were ”before the war, but a good deal further behind in many respects, buoyed up only by the enthusiasm of released automobilists and neomotorists swacking their fill of new post-war delights.

The “swacking" of beer, without more, has no direct probative bearing upon any factual issue in this case.

By Five o'clock I was back in my room, swacking down Mike's Jack Daniel's with Mike and Harvey.

Morgan was out of sight as usual, swacking away in the engine room.

Becky was a slow reader, patiently swacking her way through every line.

Pulling away, Brennan felt his shin swack against Glass's shin, but Glass kept moving.

Seems to me to be suffin' funny about this 'ere job, doubt but yer an artful young dorg,” and the next moment one of his heavy boots come swack up agin the seat of my trousers.

A second baseball bat swack against the window and I saw a spider web of cracks with a dense opaque nucleus.

Jake explained it to her: “A swack started it, at the last show one night in Hoquiam,” he said. “I just happened to notice it, and so after that I've planted a couple of stagehands in the audience for Hen-Tooth's act every show, to start it again.

They look drunk—like a swack holding onto a lamp post.

I'm looking for a guy — been a swack up and down this coast for twenty years — he scrammed with a bundle of my loot.