lam
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He got nabbed after almost 14 years on the lam, some of them spent teaching scuba in Egypt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
Monkeys on the lam in St. Louis and AI isn’t helping.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
They went on the lam to Chicago, Florida, and Arizona, and points in between.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2024
“The boy is right; he’ll lam more by tenfold on his own.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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
Last week he lammed out for good, dying at 86 on his upstate New York farm.
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 thinks that lamming is about due now.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
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 was bound to get a lamming purty soon anyhow.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
Shinners, scalpers, and tweaks are good too—jolly good!… but of course all this comes after lamming and tunding….
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren
