whamming

present participle of wham

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whamming
Verb
  • An arrest warrant has been issued for a high school football player accused of intentionally smacking one of his opponents on the head at their game, according to investigators in North Florida.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In the season four premiere of Mayor of Kingstown, co-creators/writers Hugh Dillon and Taylor Sheridan waste no time smacking viewers with a sense of doom and gloom.
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The van reaches home ground and no one talks and the only sound along that final stretch is El Camello slapping himself to scare away mosquitoes.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • First, rather than slapping a latex mask and makeup on Schuster-Koloamatangi, performance capture technology is used to have Dek’s face come alive with the actor’s expressions.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • There were plenty of upsets, from Houston falling to West Virginia to SMU potentially knocking Miami out of the playoffs one week after the Mustangs lost to Wake Forest.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Door knocking is an important part of campaigning, according to Jeff Lyons, an associate professor at Boise State University.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The robot showcased exemplary skills with the bat, whacking the ball precisely in a rally of over 100 shots with human-like agility.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • New York put the screws to its division rival on Tuesday, whacking nine home runs to cruise to a 13-3 victory.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Finely chopping and cooking firm vegetables helps.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • And yet with the Fed decision out of the way VIX is little changed even with the indexes chopping around.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gausman had retired 17 straight Dodger batters until the seventh inning, when Smith yet again got the best of him, hitting a solo home run to break the stale mate.
    Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The singing voices behind KPop Demon Hunters' beloved girl group HUNTR/X will be hitting the stage to perform live in concert for the first time.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Back in 1961, residents of Capitola woke up to find that hordes of black seabirds were slamming into cars, windows and people's homes and dying.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Ford said earlier that his province was spending $75 million to run ads in the United States slamming the impact of tariffs and featuring clips of Reagan.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The ceremony involved smashing a bottle of champagne into the hull of the submarine, which Navy Commander Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev did.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The situation is likely to seem even more bizarre to some people, after a video was released Tuesday, showing Perry picking up a birthday cake presented to her by her Lifetimes Tour backup dancers and smashing it on the ground.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Whamming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whamming. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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