bam
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"There was just a little bit of heat, then bam, they bombed again, and now nothing works," Yeromina sighed.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
"I'm not so stupid that I just say this out of the blue, bam," said Slot.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
“You’re in a narco movie and, then, bam, you’re in a telenovela,” he told Variety, comparing the film and its idiosyncratic song-and-dance sequences to an opera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
“We’re on the right path, doing the right things, wanting to get good legislation passed and he’s helping them do that. And then, bam, it blows up.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Even in the burning bam, with walls of flame tower-ing all around and him in chains, he had not seemed so distraught as he did now.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He knelt in the dirt a moment, tenderly feeling his mouth, while the hundred or so spectators cheered and honked some more and clapped and bammed their hands against their hoods and fenders.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
After that she bammed out “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis,” as if her purpose in life was to play loud enough for old man Tate to hear through the shut windows.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Benny Maestas growled and whistled; Sparky Pacheco bammed his palms against the window; Jimmy Ortega neighed; Betty Apodaca tugged her cheeks out with her fingers, grimacing and loudly clacking her teeth.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Old Pew’s too smart a hand to be bammed with a soft tusheroon.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
Old Pew's too smart a hand to be bammed with a soft half-tusheroon.
From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley
“I’m tired of them bamming my door and treating me like I’m the criminal. They’ve made us enemies by the way they behave towards us,” Johnson said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2020
I could barely hear them over the bamming of my heart.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
