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lam

[lam] / læm /


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While on the lam, Diamantis has tossed aside the standard fugitive playbook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

On the lam in Texas: Gracie the giraffe.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Before long, Frank and the Bride are on the road and on the lam, invigorating the nation in their path.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

What are the odds that Luke would randomly buy a salvaged droid that just so happened to be on the lam from his own daddy?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

Mr. Hal- lam knew nothing about it, and Mr. Edwards never appeared publicly in his business capacity.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Last week he lammed out for good, dying at 86 on his upstate New York farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The diversion which enthralls him most is golf, and once golf awarded him its most coveted prize: four months ago he lammed out a hole in one.

From Time Magazine Archive

But before a damage suit could be prosecuted, the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismali Moslems lammed out of town.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elia Kazan was casting Inge's new Broadway production, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and when Tuesday Weld suddenly lammed for Hollywood, Sandy became understudy for two roles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like kingpins, one steel tier lammed into another, then they all crashed to the floor with a sound as of the roof falling.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

"You went to Joe Pepper's room for the purpose of lamming him?" repeated old Mr. King, darting out of his chair.

From Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

I was bound to get a lamming purty soon anyhow.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

You had to keep lamming and maybe you never got a chance to enjoy it.

From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

Look at the old crook now, still lamming that axe round to beat the cars because he thinks he's being watched!

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

I don’t blame you, now, for lamming me over the ear like you done.

From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones


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