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
• But the big news is imports from China, which Trump slapped with a 145% tariff.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
• 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
• China was slapped with 20% tariffs this month and could soon face more duties.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The countries that do produce those goods, such as Guatemala and Madagascar, have been slapped with tariffs that range from 10% to 47%.
  — Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,christina Wilkie,michele Luhn, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
• 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
• But one country, oil-producing Guyana, has been slapped with 38%.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
• 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