wham
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“Stacked up, big storm after big storm after big storm — wham, wham, wham.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
One doesn’t expect to have one’s stomach churned by such a documentary, but then — wham!
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 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
I can see daylight coming through the boarded-up plywood and I cover Freak with my arms and just dive right through that plywood, wham.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
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
They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws."
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
Suddenly a huge wave whammed her, sideslipped her into a deep sea-trough.
From Time Magazine Archive
Papa turned again to the anvil and whammed it with the hammer.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
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
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
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
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
