How to Use on the lam in a Sentence

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• The Whiteheads spent the next three months on the lam.
  — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• The final monkeys on the lam would evade capture for over two months.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
• But a clerical error at the jail put him right back on the lam two days later.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The Saunders men spent a year on the lam before their arrests.
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
• The movie will focus on Manchester’s months-long odyssey on the lam.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
• Locating oligarchs on the lam has become a sort of video game for the masses.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
• As one thing leads to another, the couple finds themselves on the lam for murder.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025
• Meanwhile, India, the 9-month-old male tiger in question, is still on the lam.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 13 May 2021
• That left 52-year-old Joey Fournier, the only escapee still on the lam.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• But when Maben arrives and throws Russell’s life into chaos, the pair end up on the lam.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
• There’s no place in America for an Indian on the lam from the law.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
• Day after day, papers tallied up how many monkeys had been captured and how many remained on the lam.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
• Police said the suspect fled the scene on foot and remained on the lam until Wednesday.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
• Jagger was playing a rock star, James Fox was playing the gangster on the lam.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• McCluskey was convinced Chadwick was getting help while on the lam.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 2 July 2022
• Sirens whine in the background; informants call with tips; shots of derelict cityscapes suggest the loneliness of life on the lam.
  — Sean Paulsen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
• He got nabbed after almost 14 years on the lam, some of them spent teaching scuba in Egypt.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
• Another should show them from behind, because that might be the only thing witnesses see of dogs on the lam.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
• The suspect fled the scene in a purple Chevy Geo Tracker, and had been on the lam for four days.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 4 Dec. 2020
• His arrest means that only one escapee, Derrick Groves, remains on the lam.
  — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 27 June 2025
• His alleged killer has been on the lam ever since, until a tip cracked the cold case and lead to his arrest Saturday.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 20 Nov. 2025
• Pratt spent more than three years on the lam before being arrested in Spain in late 2022.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
• There was also a romantic subplot where Kimble has an affair with his dead wife’s sister while on the lam.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• One of the after almost 10 years on the lam for killing his ex-girlfriend, the feds said Saturday.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Christopher Worrell, who spent weeks on the lam, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison.
  — Michael Kunzelman, Twin Cities, 5 Jan. 2024
• The roaming bull of Barrington Hills is no longer on the lam, the village has reported.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• After three days on the lam, Chesney was coaxed back with comforting voices and familiar scents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
• After all, a lot of smart and productive people (not to mention a lot of happy and stable people) don't spend their lives on the lam.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
• In May, an inmate who escaped from a prison in Northwestern Ohio died from drowning while on the lam.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 26 July 2023
• One of the two is the sister of a Capitol riot defendant who has been on the lam since 2021.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023