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How to use cam in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Cam means a turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. Example: “Whin shü cam oot an fann me dere Wi peenie fairlins eltit.”

More sentences with cam

  • Whin shü cam oot an fann me dere Wi peenie fairlins eltit.From the entry elt
  • The racecar's cammed out engine raspily loped and sputtered as it waited for the green light.From the entry cammed out
  • This engine is an overhead cam model.From the entry overhead cam
  • Cam on Ingerland, scor som fackin goals!!!From the entry Ingerland
  • A well-timed engine with an unaggressive cam profile will purr like a kitten and is unlikely to backfire even upon sudden throttle changes.From the entry well-timed
  • This engine has an overhead cam.From the entry overhead cam
  • “Looks like slick cam today, Cap'n.” Charles stared straight up at her.2013, Anna Gill, The Island Woman: A Chesapeake Story, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry slick cam
  • "It's slick cam out here this morning," my father said, using the waterman's phrase for totally calm.2007, Terry L. Noble, Starting at Sea Level, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry slick cam
  • Cam locks and inner cylinder locks feature seven-pin tubular security and are keyable to each other.1985, Machine Design, volume 57, numbers 1-6, page 180. From the entry keyable
  • Cam will help but you'd need to upgear a tire size to capitalize on it.1981, Popular Science, volume 219, number 5, page 66. From the entry upgear
  • The words cam thickly, now halting and now overtripping each other.1911, Van Tassel Sutphen, “The Talisman”, in Collier's, volume 47, page 27. From the entry overtrip
  • Now tighten the three 13mm bolts so the outer cam pulley is locked back to the inner pulley.2016 May 17, ct.p, “PD150 cambelt change, different to 1.8t?”, in UK-MKIVs.net. From the entry cock on
  • The purpose of cam girl blogs vary wildly.2012, Anita Harris, editor, Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry tagboard
  • In equal machining of cylindrical cam's groove, roughcast of cylindrical cam is clamped in revolving spindle of NC milling machine.2009, Bo Zhao, Xipeng Xu, Advances in grinding and abrasive technology XV. From the entry milling machine
  • I was looking at the rack to wee what cam I could pop in when I heard this "bink!2000, Accidents in North American Mountaineering, page 49. From the entry bink
  • Cam boys always have the sort of all-American, high school quarterback names cooked up by a suburban mom who wants her son to be unique.2017 May 26, Sirin Kale, “‘I Ejaculated On My BMW’: Inside the Life of a Cam Boy”, in Vice. From the entry cam boy
  • Cam once explained to my brother that Stradivarius had sprinkled volcanic ash between the wood and the varnish on his violins, lushening their sound.2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners, page 72. From the entry lushen
  • The unprofessional production of the skits, shot on handheld digital video without the assistance of a 'steady cam' device, contributes to their unvarnished allure.2008, Robert Sweeny, “This Performance Art Is for the Birds”, in Studies in Art Education, volume 49, page 138. From the entry unvarnished
  • (Because the stump cam had yet to be invented, viewers were spared the sight of a super-slo replay of his gymnastic display from an overly explicit angle).2004, Nigel Henderson, The Worst of Cricket: Run Outs to Riots: Malice and Misfortune in the World’s Cruellest Game, Pitch Publishing…. From the entry stump cam
  • A farmer friend keeps a video camera in the barn so she can turn on her goat cam and observe her animals at any time of the day or night.2013, Janet Hurst, The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More, Voyageur Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry nanny

Meaning of cam

  1. noun A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. noun A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  3. noun A ridge or mound of earth.

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Questions about cam in a sentence

How do you use cam in a sentence?
Cam is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Whin shü cam oot an fann me dere Wi peenie fairlins eltit.”
What is a short sentence with cam?
“This engine has an overhead cam.”
What does cam mean?
Cam means a turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cam (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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