bam
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"There was just a little bit of heat, then bam, they bombed again, and now nothing works," Yeromina sighed.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
"I'm not so stupid that I just say this out of the blue, bam," said Slot.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
“You’re in a narco movie and, then, bam, you’re in a telenovela,” he told Variety, comparing the film and its idiosyncratic song-and-dance sequences to an opera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
But the rhythm is like music, fast and propulsive, building to a crescendo until, bam, something slams on the brakes: “You eat breakfast?!”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
The cow is standing in the bam door, chewing.
From "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner
He knelt in the dirt a moment, tenderly feeling his mouth, while the hundred or so spectators cheered and honked some more and clapped and bammed their hands against their hoods and fenders.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Benny Maestas growled and whistled; Sparky Pacheco bammed his palms against the window; Jimmy Ortega neighed; Betty Apodaca tugged her cheeks out with her fingers, grimacing and loudly clacking her teeth.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
After that she bammed out “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis,” as if her purpose in life was to play loud enough for old man Tate to hear through the shut windows.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Whether Byron bammed him, or he, by virtue of his own stupidity, was the sole and sufficient bammifier of himself, I know not.’
From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whether Byron bammed him, or he, by virtue of his own egregious stupidity, was the sole and sufficient bammifier of himself, I know not; neither greatly do I care.
From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“I’m tired of them bamming my door and treating me like I’m the criminal. They’ve made us enemies by the way they behave towards us,” Johnson said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2020
I could barely hear them over the bamming of my heart.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
