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ham

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noun

ham

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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ham
Noun
Smoked pulled ham orders come with a sweet honey brown sugar glaze. Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025 There’s ham, some kind of seasoned pork, cheese — usually Swiss — pickles and, of course, mustard. Timothy Depeugh, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
This act also shows Lil Nas X’s rise including Madonna hamming for the cameras backstage at one of his shows. Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2024 The five-person group appears to be posing for the camera, hamming up their respective jobs. Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for ham
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ham
Adjective
  • Snook is excellent at playing tremulous and overwhelming feeling without ever seeming hammy or phony, and Marissa’s raw emotion anchors All Her Fault in something real even as the plot reveals grow increasingly (and enjoyably) outrageous.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The Omen is extremely hammy, with its clunky synthesized score and melodramatic shifts between cameras, but its point is nevertheless clear: None of this should have been allowed to happen.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Find your next favorite accessory in Khaite’s Jane flats, Bottega’s Andiamo bag, or Acne Studios’s thigh-high boots.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Shark Watch South Australia said in their post that the bite mark on Berryman’s thigh measured over 10 inches (27 cm), which suggested the creature was around 3m long.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Friendly goats treat downward dog posers as their own obstacle courses, scrambling atop yogis who may just find that supporting the weight of their agile farm friends is a surprisingly vigorous — and hilarious — core workout.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Rideshare posers have also allegedly raped passengers.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Upton served as a radioman throughout the war, Farley said.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Upton continued to serve as a radioman during World War II and later started a family with wife Gene, who Pacific Historic Parks said died in 2018.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Critics accused him of aping Farage’s rhetoric and warned that Labour could lose votes to the left in trying to court the right.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Homemade knives, called shanks, are plentiful inside the prison, several inmates said.
    Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Start with a glass of stout and the Hungarian mushroom soup before moving on to either the pork shank, prime rib (the best in town) or Amish chicken for an entree.
    Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In recent months, however, wolves have been the center of controversy in the state’s northern cattle rangelands, where the Beyem Seyo pack killed more than 87 calves in about six months, leading state wildlife officials to euthanize four of them.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Christian Braun added 31 points, Aaron Gordon scored 20, and Jamal Murray — playing through a calf ailment — finished with 15 points and seven assists.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • There are other Washburn regulars here too, like the excellent actors Bruce McKenzie and Jeff Biehl, but despite all their long acquaintance, something about the project never quite comes into focus.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • People pour in from the dense warrens of India’s financial capital and from dusty villages thousands of kilometers away, all flowing towards the fortified, sea-facing Mumbai home of actor Shah Rukh Khan.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025

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