wham
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“And I think that’s what happens; you quit thinking about it. It’s ‘Hey, we got to figure a way to get on base,’ and all of a sudden, wham, there’s a hit.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
At first thought, a homemade sprinkle birthday cake seems like an easy task: Just fold a bunch of sprinkles into a vanilla cake and wham bam, you're done.
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2022
“It just comes in, and, wham, it hits the ground,” Vago says.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 6, 2020
“If a commuter uses it daily and the first three days are cloudy, there will be no artwork. Then, on Thursday — wham — there it is. It makes the whole experience very, very fresh.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2019
She turned the corner the same time I did, and wham!
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Freneau has actually succeeded in making him a living creature, and his opinions and "whim whams" are full of hard sense and practical wisdom.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
Manchester United make six changes from the side that whammed Wigan.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2013
The Chair gulped, glared about at the silent House of Representatives, whammed the gavel with unnecessary vigor.
From Time Magazine Archive
They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws."
From Time Magazine Archive
Kenneth G. Macqueen, who developed the demon knitter, began his career as a medical student but "whammed out be cause I wasn't much good."
From Time Magazine Archive
The guard leaned forward and, with his pike, whammed the third and final closed door.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
We're going through this gruelling course of him whamming and jamming on the guitar and one day he hit upon something.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2012
Now she won twelve, with a whamming overhead serve, a flashing forehand drive that made her look at least twice the Betty Nuthall that played in the U. S. two years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether I'm kicking my sorrows away in a magnificent breaststroke, slamming that anger with my tennis racket or whamming that big stress ball at batting practice, my teenage problems find an outlet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moving to St. Louis, he opened another place, with metal tables in it, but the balls made such a noise whamming off the cushions that it got on his nerves.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was very lo-grav/no-grav, and it was all about whamming one person into another in big stuffed suits.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
