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• If helicopter liftouts and lovers on the lam got the media excited, the film industry wove moonbeams.2018, John Kerr, Wanted: John & Lucy. From the entry liftout
• Their top hitman, Joe Russo, was on the lam after murdering Joe Barboza in San Francisco.2007, Howie Carr, The Brothers Bulger. From the entry hitman
• Lam. was, then, taken to the Yemen, where it was faithfully copied.2007, Philip S. Alexander, “The Language of Targum Lamentations”, in The Targum of Lamentations […] (The Aramaic Bible; 17B)…. From the entry miscopying
• They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168. From the entry take it on the lam
• "Now, if you're afraid I'm going to lam out with these things."1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 13, column 2. From the entry lam out
• Either you didn't notice that, which seems unlikely, or you got the wind up and lammed.1939, Raymond Chandler, chapter 14, in The Big Sleep, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, published August 1992, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry whiff
• I’ll lam ye!” and he raised the gun to his shoulder.1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in The Oakdale Affair. From the entry gall
• Charges of Russian meddling, including allegations of vote-buying by a Moldovan oligarch on the lam in Russia, could have substance.2024 November 25, Fred Weir, “In shifting world, post-Soviet states look back to a constant: Russia”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry on the lam
• There have been more bank runs, executives on the lam, arrests and credit panics than the country has seen in years.2012 September 15, “Vietnam: A Tiger at Bay”, in The Economist. From the entry on the lam
• Corinne Antell, exotic in an East Indian sari I had not seen before, a gold lamé creation that reflected her unschoolmarmish affluence, was politely demure.1974, Kay Martin, Vanessa, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 209. From the entry unschoolmarmish
• An Englishwoman there lammed into me last night, first about the atom bomb and then saying that I must be a fanatic.1954, Saul Bellow, “The Gonzaga Manuscripts”, in Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Penguin, published 1984, page 120. From the entry lam into
• Back in the States, Geng is soon on the lam in San Francisco for hot-wiring and crashing a car with a friend while high on methedrine.2007 May 6, Toni Bentley, “Secrets and Lies”, in New York Times. From the entry methedrine
• Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida.1950 June 5, “Millennium Deferred”, in Time. From the entry lam out
• The girl stared at him for a moment thunderstruck; then she lammed into the old horse with a stick she carried in place of a whip.1900, Henry Lawson, “Andy Page's Rival”, in On the Track. From the entry lam into
• A contributing factor to this slightly regressive femininity may have been the sugary fabrics (silver lamé, tulle over sequins) and the meringuelike puffs and baby Googums bows at the neck.2007 February 6, Cathy Horyn, “Young Spirits, One of Them an Old Master”, in The New York Times. From the entry femininity

Meaning of lam

1. verb To beat or thrash.
2. verb To flee or run away.
3. noun A flight or escape.

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Questions about lam in a sentence

How do you use lam in a sentence?

Lam is used as a verb and noun. For example: “If helicopter liftouts and lovers on the lam got the media excited, the film industry wove moonbeams.”

What is a short sentence with lam?

“on the lam”

What does lam mean?

Lam means to beat or thrash.