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
Consequently, the dance style developed swift, sharp and forceful movements - much like how action heroes in comic books beat up their villains, accompanied by sound-effects like "ka-pow" and "bam".
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024
“I wanted to come in, bam bam, with a big surprise,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
“We’re on the right path, doing the right things, wanting to get good legislation passed and he’s helping them do that. And then, bam, it blows up.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Gabi taps a few more keys, hits return and – bam!
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
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
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
Old Pew's too smart a hand to be bammed with a soft half-tusheroon.
From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by Henley, William Ernest
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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher
“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
