wham
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One doesn’t expect to have one’s stomach churned by such a documentary, but then — wham!
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
“And I think that’s what happens; you quit thinking about it. It’s ‘Hey, we got to figure a way to get on base,’ and all of a sudden, wham, there’s a hit.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
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
We wham into the thicket with a vengeance.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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 Freneau, Philip
Manchester United make six changes from the side that whammed Wigan.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2013
Kenneth G. Macqueen, who developed the demon knitter, began his career as a medical student but "whammed out be cause I wasn't much good."
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
Other photographers, crowded out onto the deck, whammed their fists against the glass wall to catch her attention.
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
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
It was very lo-grav/no-grav, and it was all about whamming one person into another in big stuffed suits.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
