lamming

present participle of lam

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamming
Verb
  • Their customers either don't want to leave en masse or have a hard time escaping.
    NPR, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Revenge softens some of Baron Frankenstein’s colder mannerisms into a more playful performance from Cushing; after escaping the gallows, the Baron hides his true identity and takes work at a hospital for the poor to access a supply of body parts.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jimenez shot Vargas once in the chest and attempted to shoot a second time before fleeing the scene with Garfias in the truck, the statement said.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Arrivals of asylum-seekers and other migrants fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa for Europe over the past decade helped fuel rising far-right populism and led to stricter border controls that have drawn heavy criticism from human rights groups.
    Sam McNeil, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And, before long, beer was flying and Blue Jays were pouring onto the field to celebrate the win.
    Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Great gray owls hunt blind, flying low, listening to the faintest rustling of a mouse beneath snow.
    Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of running away from that image, Sennott began to hone it.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Abused by her father and a close family friend, dropping out of school after 9th grade, running away before landing a job at Mar-a-Lago making $9 an hour as a locker room attendant.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Lamming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamming. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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