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How to use pam in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Pam means the jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards. Example: “Pam looked leggy today because she was wearing a miniskirt.”

Examples of pam by meaning

nounA panorama.

  • The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.1934, Frank Roy Fraprie, American Photography, volume 28, page 240

verbTo pan a camera in order to show a panorama.

  • In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;1918, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331
  • The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk
  • At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347

More sentences with pam

  • Pam looked leggy today because she was wearing a miniskirt.From the entry leggy
  • Pam Edwards sports the latest in springwear for the Fashion Show.1988, Phase, page 25. From the entry springwear
  • Pam frowned as she eyed me and my jersey.2009, Debbie Rigaud, chapter 2, in Perfect Shot (The Romantic Comedies), New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry stylista
  • Pam has been caving for 25 years.2007 September 29, Kate Humble, “What lies beneath”, in The Guardian. From the entry cave
  • I wasn't gone to half no band box pammed off on me Sid, an I guess she seen it after wile.1919, Journal of the Outdoor Life - Volume 16, page 43. From the entry pam off
  • PAM is a guitar song fanfared by massive chords on an acoustic 12-string (probably (ribbed From The Who's contemporary hit 'Pinball Wizard').2008, Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, →ISBN, page 364. From the entry fanfare
  • Yea, as I kill this gulp o' Taos Lightnin' pammed off on us as vino, in like manner will he extinguish you.1930, S. William Moore, The Collar of Brass, page 89. From the entry pam off

Meaning of pam

  1. noun The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
  2. noun A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.
  3. noun A panorama.

Full definition of pam

Questions about pam in a sentence

How do you use pam in a sentence?
Pam is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Pam looked leggy today because she was wearing a miniskirt.”
What is a short sentence with pam?
“Pam has been caving for 25 years.”
What does pam mean?
Pam means the jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pam (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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