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[lam] / læm /


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Before long, Frank and the Bride are on the road and on the lam, invigorating the nation in their path.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

Monkeys on the lam in St. Louis and AI isn’t helping.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026

Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

What are the odds that Luke would randomly buy a salvaged droid that just so happened to be on the lam from his own daddy?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

After some time I got up and I was very thirsty and I went to Ammu !r room and said lam thirsty.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Last week he lammed out for good, dying at 86 on his upstate New York farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

But before a damage suit could be prosecuted, the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismali Moslems lammed out of town.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elia Kazan was casting Inge's new Broadway production, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and when Tuesday Weld suddenly lammed for Hollywood, Sandy became understudy for two roles.

From Time Magazine Archive

The diversion which enthralls him most is golf, and once golf awarded him its most coveted prize: four months ago he lammed out a hole in one.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like kingpins, one steel tier lammed into another, then they all crashed to the floor with a sound as of the roof falling.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Shinners, scalpers, and tweaks are good too—jolly good!… but of course all this comes after lamming and tunding….

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren

I thinks that lamming is about due now.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

"You went to Joe Pepper's room for the purpose of lamming him?" repeated old Mr. King, darting out of his chair.

From Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

I was bound to get a lamming purty soon anyhow.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

Look at the old crook now, still lamming that axe round to beat the cars because he thinks he's being watched!

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson




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