wham
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“Stacked up, big storm after big storm after big storm — wham, wham, wham.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
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
Michael pivots slowly, gazes out in the direction of the trees for a few seconds, and then wham, he releases the throw.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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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 percussion man ran back & forth between kettle drums, cymbal and a toy drum, jangled some bells on the way, hammered a xylophone and, with evident pleasure, whammed a huge Chinese gong.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Airmen invited to meet the "distinguished Mr. Bullfinch" reported that when he whammed a fly with 39 his long-tailed Egyptian fly whisk, he paused to comment dryly: "I don't think that was a probable, gentlemen."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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
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Feeling a good deal like Siberian exiles, the museum men whiled away the long, blitzless days by whamming golf balls across the manicured terraces or romping with a police dog named Peggy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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