How to Use kick-ass in a Sentence

kick-ass

adjective

• But at least it was done in the most kick-ass way possible.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
• The wicked original was a black satire with ripping action and a kick-ass lead played with intelligence.
  — Michael Ordoña, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
• Once back in Eternia the action ramps up big time, and Knight gets to stage several kick-ass battles.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 June 2026
• Datebook Picks The wicked original was a black satire with ripping action and a kick-ass lead played with intelligence.
  — Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
• Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
• These are all kick-ass, talented, unbelievable filmmakers.
  — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
• At that point, a loud drum fill announces itself, snarling electric guitars kick in and McCartney’s trademark howls of old arrive in time for a fairly kick-ass chorus.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 May 2026
• Rønning does get his own kick-ass score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, all ominous throbbing, but can’t come up with anything visually distinctive.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
• With his roundhouse kicks, tough-guy one-liners and a formidable moral compass, Chuck Norris delivered kick-ass heroes for years on screens large and small, cementing himself in pop culture back in the 1980s.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• Knight’s work includes SAS Rogue Heroes, Peaky Blinders and Eastern Promises, all of them featuring kick-ass, bone-crunching scenes.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
• The film features a kick-ass soundtrack (Bill Withers, Fleetwood Mac, Donna Summer and more), balletic cinematography and has a great pace to it and some wild action set pieces.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
• But as bad as the camps were, the season otherwise did a great job of incorporating Chinese culture into the theme of the challenges and rewards—including an overnight on the Great Wall and a kick-ass trip to the Shaolin Temple.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
• To celebrate 40 years of the anthropomorphic turtle brothers, the episode featured cameos from the characters and super-secret sewer clues throughout, and was kicked off by a kick-ass performance from panelist Ken Jeong, who seems to be getting more into the singing side of things this season.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026