How to Use punch out in a Sentence

punch out

verb

• The rest of the track is bright, with high synth lines that punch out.
  — PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
• The hero had punched out the villain and made him crumple to the ground.
  — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
• One year, the Toyota TS040 had the best punch out of the corner and down the main straight.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• Through the first six outs, the lanky southpaw punched out three.
  — NOLA.com, 23 May 2018
• The windows were punched out and then the thieves entered them.
  — Amber Jayanth, The Enquirer, 30 Apr. 2024
• Use a drinking straw to punch out two holes in the top of each cookie.
  — Lyda Jones Burnette, Country Living, 8 Sep. 2023
• In the playoffs, Dunn held Atholton to one hit and punched out 10 in four innings of a 2-0 loss.
  — Tim Schwartz, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2019
• The scene takes all of the punch out of the jokes and ridicule that were common following the trial.
  — Karen Han, Vox, 7 July 2018
• Jonathan Loaisiga punched out five in two innings, and Chad Green struck out the side in the ninth.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
• Guys punch out 200 times and people act like it’s no big deal.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
• The Buffs clocked in, put in a full four quarters of good work – for the first time this season – and punched out.
  — Brian Howell, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
• Thieves got in by punching out the driver’s side door lock.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2017
• The driver’s-side front window was punched out, but nothing was stolen.
  — Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2019
• This punches out a bunch of gaps in the carbon lattice.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 May 2024
• Chubb’s next carry was a 44-yard run, but he was chased down by Jonathan Jones, who punched out the ball.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2019
• But the writers said the diversion took the punch out of the climactic fight, so the scene was cut.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 19 July 2019
• Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon are back to give Denver a 1-2 punch out of the backfield.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2022
• The window was removed and a door lock was punched out, police said.
  — Phil Rockrohr, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• In 1987 at Torrey Pines, Craig Stadler got on his knees to punch out a shot from under a tree.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2021
• Use a hammer to lightly bang against the back of the screwdriver and punch out the plastic plug.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2017
• Due to this, when the shift ends there’s always a long line of people waiting their turn to punch out.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
• Due to this, when the shift ends there’s always a long line of people waiting their turn to punch out.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2022
• Due to this, when the shift ends there’s always a long line of people waiting their turn to punch out.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2022
• Due to this, when the shift ends there’s always a long line of people waiting their turn to punch out.
  — Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2022
• But Minnesota United’s goalie dove to the right to punch out Ziegler’s low shot.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 13 July 2019
• Sale punched out his 11th and 12th Giants in the seventh inning.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Slowly, each of the men drilled tiny holes around the air vents in the back of their cells, then punched out a portion of the wall large enough to wiggle through.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• In his first start for the Sox, Hernandez struck out the side in the first inning then punched out Nomar Mazara with a 96-m.p.h.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
• Burrow completed a short pass to tight end Tanner Hudson, who was scampering into the end zone before Dugger punched out the ball at the 2-yard line.
  — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 8 Sep. 2024
• Simultaneously punched out, yet refusing to stay down for the count, a gruff Smith does his actorly best to understand, then diss, his public’s view of the slap heard round the world.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025