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How to use the word punched in a Sentence?

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I ’d say I’ve got a little bit better anger management, i have n’t punched anybody or broken any rakes recently.

Happy Gilmore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a long story. My son was in a boat wreck … months back. He’s been getting threats, most of it’s been benign stuff. We didn’t take serious, you know, he’s been getting like punched. Um, I, I know that’s what it is.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I thought we were ready but obviously they came out and they punched us first.

Chloe Bibby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was attacked, out of nowhere, for no reason, and there is one person fighting, one person who did the violence, not the board. It wasn't the board, it was one individual and that one individual grabbed my throat, slammed my head down on the table, punched me repeatedly in the head and the only one who was pointing a finger was that person, was Danielle Green.

Flint School

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They were the more aggressive team just overall, we knew we had to punch them back. They punched us at their house, we had to respond. We knew this game was really important for our goals.

Christian Braun

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The individual then grabbed the victim around the neck and punched her multiple times to the face and body before fleeing westbound.

The NYPD

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was punched, slapped, literally picked up and thrown into my TV and then( he) picked me up and slammed me into my son's bouncy seat by my throat. This is not the first time he has been violent with me. I am afraid for my safety and for my children's safety.

Kristin Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I understand that he actually punched her twice, i did see her walk back down the aisle afterwards. She had blood splattered on the outside of her mask.

Passenger Mackenzie Rose

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Friday morning at about 2 a.m., Shaun Runyon got mad as a result of a problem with a supervisor and Shaun Runyon punched Shaun Runyon supervisor and fled from the workplace.

Polk County

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The guy sucker-punched my son and hit him right in the face and just got to whaling on my son for no reason and of course, this is disturbing, my son tells me that the guy then grabbed his shirt and slung him around to the other side of the bus and continued to beat on him and all this time, there are passengers on the bus and there's a bus driver, and no one does anything to intervene.

Billy Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To be all honest with you, if I got a phone call from someone I never even knew or met, and they just punched in my number randomly. It wouldn't have mattered. I would have done the same thing.

Wesley Pandy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The physical violence we experienced was horrific and devastating, my fellow officers and I were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eye-damaging lasers by a violent mob who apparently saw us, law enforcement, officers dedicated to ironically protecting them as Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell citizens, as an impediment to their attempted insurrection.

Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That pain – it was like somebody punched me in the face.

Sharon Osbourne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is against the backdrop of a well-settled principle that officers can't use force, should not use force against people who are not physically resisting, and that precedent carries very little weight when courts won't let those cases go forward simply because the person in the case before them walked away instead of saying something or the officers kicked them instead of punched them or these very minor deviations.

Joanna Schwartz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We punched'em in the mouth.

Moses Wright and Jordan Usher

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

In terms of sheer experience, Brainard has punched all the tickets. It would be hard to imagine a more mainstream background, for the Wall Street allies of the Biden campaign, Brainard is ideal. As a career scholar and public official, she would presumably be less of a lightning rod for progressive critics than a Wall Street figure.

Robert Kuttner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was verbally and emotionally abused for everything from the family I was born into to the clothes I would wear in photoshoots, i was scratched. I was slapped. I was punched in the face, which caused a trip to the hospital to treat my broken nose.

Blake Jenner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They beat me pretty badin the station, they threw me to the ground, kicked me, punched me, stood on me, spit on me.

Lee Elder

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It was a big shark ... I immediately started to hit it, i dont know how many times I punched it, but I hit it with everything I could and it let go.

Charlie Winter

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's like getting slapped in the face and punched in the gut, the DA office is meant to protect us, is meant to serve justice, and there was no justice here.

Andrew Yang for president

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He was getting off with a slap on the wrist, basically, we were betrayed twice... Its like getting slapped in the face and punched in the gut.

Evelyn Yang

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again, the president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He's demeaning me and my career. It's sickening.

Lisa Page for doing that

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I learned what it felt like to be pinned down and slapped repeatedly, punched so hard the wind would go out of me, dragged by my hair across pavement, head-butted, pinched until my skin broke, shoved into a wall so hard the drywall broke, choked.

Melissa Benoist

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I never thought he would kill someone, i was afraid of him, though, because he punched me. That's when I told him to get out of my house.

Fioraliza Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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