Smacks is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Smacks meaning
plural of smack
Using Smacks
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of smack
- In the example corpus, smacks often appears in combinations such as: smacks of, it smacks, that smacks.
Context around Smacks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smacks
- In this selection, "smacks" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sacramentohoney, honey, maxwell, recalled, due and cody stand out and add context to how "smacks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include area that smacks the crossbar and campaign that smacks of desperation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smacks" sits close to words such as agonizing, allocates and alves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smacks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Honda Fit’s cabin smacks of good built quality. (10 words)
Prithvi Shaw smacks magnificent 134 in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match. (11 words)
Fernandes hits a venomous shot from outside the area that smacks the crossbar. (13 words)
If that smacks of confidence, so does the fact that Creed III doesn’t even feature Sylvester Stallone as the iconic Italian Stallion, aka Rocky Balboa, despite appearing in the previous two Jordan-starring films. (35 words)
Anybody passionate about the poor needs no prodding to act. Condemning the Houston gift as a waste, and likening it to carrying coal to New Castle, smacks of lack of understanding. (31 words)
We urge Fox and friends to focus on the substantive issues that differentiate Sheinbaum from Galvez rather than engaging in a dirty smear campaign that smacks of desperation and antisemitism. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Plane Makes Emergency Landing At Mather Airport; Pilots Unhurt « CBS SacramentoHoney Smacks Recalled Over Salmonella ConcernsKellogg's is recalling boxes of Honey Smacks due to possible Salmonella contamination.
Glen Maxwell smacks a four as his Melbourne Stars chase a big Adelaide Strikers total on 205.
He said, “For Peter Obi to show up during the purported appointment of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu as Ohanaeze President-General smacks of deceit.
He smacks Cody with the steps, then tosses them into the ring with ease.
If that smacks of confidence, so does the fact that Creed III doesn’t even feature Sylvester Stallone as the iconic Italian Stallion, aka Rocky Balboa, despite appearing in the previous two Jordan-starring films.
Prithvi Shaw smacks magnificent 134 in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match.
Smacks a length outside off stump, bowls a couple a bit wide but others very close to the timber.
This game smacks of mid-table mediocrity and one that’s hard to get excited about.
We urge Fox and friends to focus on the substantive issues that differentiate Sheinbaum from Galvez rather than engaging in a dirty smear campaign that smacks of desperation and antisemitism.
When you can simply postpose things, as many other productions will also do, this kind of reasoning statement just smacks of the lie that it obviously is.
Zaugg was much more critical of the appointment process, something he believes smacks of undue provincial interference in municipal affairs.
A 17 per cent compounded increase in taxes in three years smacks of poor management in this writer’s opinion.
Fernandes hits a venomous shot from outside the area that smacks the crossbar.
It smacks of lack of standard for Alia, a beneficiary of the generousity of the Akume political family, to turn round and start demonising the group.
No matter the angle from which you look at it, the entire episode is outrageous and smacks of the worst kind of Almajiri Journalism.
The Honda Fit’s cabin smacks of good built quality.
Vice gets sent into the ringpost and smacks her hand off of it.
When Juliette declares her love for him, he smacks her, and then he and Shang-Chi talk again.
Yuta keeps targeting Eddie’s right arm, so Eddie smacks him with the spinning backfist with his left hand.
Anybody passionate about the poor needs no prodding to act. Condemning the Houston gift as a waste, and likening it to carrying coal to New Castle, smacks of lack of understanding.
Common combinations with smacks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- smacks of 43×
- it smacks 9×
- that smacks 7×
- honey smacks 4×
- and smacks 4×
- this smacks 4×
- he smacks 2×
- smacks the 2×
- smacks her 2×
- smacks into 2×