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
And just when you’d get used to that wide rushing river, you’d go around another bend and wham!
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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
Other photographers, crowded out onto the deck, whammed their fists against the glass wall to catch her attention.
From Time Magazine Archive
His bombers whammed alternately at Port Moresby and north Australian ports.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I ducked; it missed me, but whammed Maria on the head and sent her plunging headlong into the mud.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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
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
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
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
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
