whams 1 of 2

plural of wham

whams

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of wham

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whams
Noun
  • Rodgers took four sacks and three other hits, including multiple heavy blows.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Last March, Mariah The Scientist allegedly came to blows with Young Thug’s former lover, Cleopatra Dues, at an Atlanta lounge.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Andor hates him on sight, which only intensifies when Berend smacks around his mother and tears up the apartment looking for proof that Klára has deceived the boy with idealized fictions about his origins.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Vocals are sped up into squiggles, instruments are reversed and gated, percussion smacks you in the face and then suddenly vanishes.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, Ted slaps him in the face, twice.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Anthony thinks his fiancé wants a mother more than a partner, so Giuseppe slaps a pie into his face?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Pop princess Kylie Minogue landed some punches as Cammy White in the 1994 Street Fighter film.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The one-two-three judicial punches could risk the president's plans to deport as many as 1 million people per year.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Beyond clicks and swipes, leaders should anticipate a future of inner speech, intention markers, and neuro-physiological feedback.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • That set them up for a quick dispatch via a series of sword swipes.
    Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Harrison stabs Prater with the needle and knocks the billionaire out.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • When cosmic rays — including, in part, plain old protons from the Sun’s solar wind — strike the Moon, the recoil from those heavy elements knocks them into an excited state.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Royals logged five hits against the Angels on Thursday.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Shoppers recommend slicing it before freezing so individual portions are ready to grab whenever a craving hits.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As Thursday night rolled into Friday morning, Anisimova’s strokes had the same frozen-rope surety that had gotten her past Świątek in the quarterfinal.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Apply a base layer of detangling spray to the area, and use a wide-tooth comb or detangling brush to gently work at the mat, starting at the outer edges (closest to your ends, not your roots) and using small strokes.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Whams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whams. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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