Example Sentences

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The closures have walloped timber growers, especially in the South, where landowners ranging from Weyerhaeuser, with its vast loblolly plantations, to families with 40-acre woodlots raise pine for the forest-products industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

What they have in common is markets that have walloped their bossy giant neighbor’s.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

The storms that have walloped California in fierce waves since last month have left many communities cleaning up and digging out from flooding and landslides.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

It hasn’t happened very often, but when companies have turned in both weaker profits and sales this reporting season than analysts expected, investors have walloped them with record-sized punishments for their stock prices.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022

When Harold put on the brakes and eased up, she throwed him a look that I would have walloped Dempsey for.

From Kid Scanlan by Witwer, H. C. (Harry Charles)