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wham

[hwam, wam] / ʰwæm, wæm /


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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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