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
You might come around a bend and wham!
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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
His bombers whammed alternately at Port Moresby and north Australian ports.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I ducked; it missed me, but whammed Maria on the head and sent her plunging headlong into the mud.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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
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
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
I seem to do most of the gorge run on my back, whamming boulders with the top of my head.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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