wham
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“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
When players make long passes, the puck doesn’t jangle as much, but then — wham!
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2018
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
They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws."
From Time Magazine Archive
Down the Albany Post Road tootled and whammed a fife, drum and bugle corps, behind them a straggling crowd of 500 villagers, carrying red railroad flares.
From Time Magazine Archive
Court of Appeals Associate Justice, last week wiped off the dust that had gathered on his club since he left the Department of Justice, and whammed it down on the collective pate of organized labor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guard leaned forward and, with his pike, whammed the third and final closed door.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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
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
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
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
