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How to use spam in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Spam means unsolicited bulk electronic messages. Example: “I get far too much spam.”

Examples of spam by meaning

nounUnsolicited bulk electronic messages.

  • I get far too much spam.
  • I received 58 spams yesterday.
  • That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

nounAny undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

  • An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)

verbTo do something rapidly and repeatedly.

  • Stop spamming that special attack!
  • Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

More sentences with spam

  • One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server.From the entry black hole
  • Oh chuff off! I'm so chuffing fed up with all of the spam posts on my timeline.From the entry chuff
  • You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.From the entry flaming
  • My e-mail addy is being spammed. I should've kept it private.From the entry addy
  • We whoised the domain to find out who was sending the spam.From the entry whois
  • Every time I get spam in my inbox, I add the sender to my blocklist.From the entry blocklist
  • He griefed, spammed, begged to be an administrator and did many other nooby things.From the entry nooby
  • I keep getting emails from spam accounts trying to sell me certain pharmaceuticals.From the entry spam account
  • A Heavy spammed the voice command, filling the servers with shouts of "pootis!"From the entry pootis
  • I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.From the entry flame
  • Top-posting and spamming are considered poor netiquette on a newsgroup.From the entry netiquette
  • Trying to get rid of spam e-mails is like whack-a-mole: as soon as you delete one, another appears.From the entry whack-a-mole
  • She only shares her spam account with her closest friends.From the entry spam account
  • That dude just keeps spamming that one “Loud Nigra Magic Missile BEES” song in comms. I just hate this game's never-ending micspam.From the entry micspam
  • When they hit cruisers, they use hangar spam to mow down corvettes and bastions.2021 December 21, AdamZeeper, “Countering artillery battleships”, in reddit.com. From the entry megacannon
  • Any thoughtful comments are typically lost in a roiling sea of “LOLs,” insults and spam.2013 September 24, Heather Kelly, “YouTube tries to fix its comments”, in CNN. From the entry lol
  • It is often used as a method to hide the source address in spamming.2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49). From the entry fakemail
  • With WordPress.com you can approve, mark as spam, unapprove, or delete comments.2009, Mark William Bell, Build a Website for Free. From the entry unapprove
  • Note that my private addresses are unwhitelisted and yet have essentially zero spam.2007 March 5, Oz, “Hello from the sunny climate of North Yorkshire - Joke”, in uk.business.agriculture (Usenet). From the entry unwhitelisted
  • There's also been an increase in blegging, bitlegging and splogging (a blend of spam and blog).2006 November 26, Manisha Singh, “Lexicon techs all”, in The Economic Times, Mumbai: Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry bitlegging
  • It seems that Joe-jobbing has now moved to blog comment spam.2006 March 11, Scott Allen, “Joe jobbing moves to blog comment spam - I'm a victim”, in news.admin.net-abuse.misc (Usenet), archived from…. From the entry joe-job
  • They are used to relay spam from the spam's originator so that the originator cannot be traced.2004, Jeff Duntemann, Degunking Your Email, Spam, and Viruses, page 209. From the entry originator
  • SpamAssassin works by assigning scores to characteristics of suspected spam mail.2004, PC Mag. From the entry malformatted
  • While these are acceptable in small doses, too much use is spamming and just plain annoying.2003 May 9, Lu Hong, “The Big, Bad, Rules of #simrtk”, in Simulated RTK, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2007. From the entry o rly
  • But a double cross post to applicable groups is not velveeta, spam, or bad netiquette.2003, JT, “OT - Re: Please do not cross-post!”, in alt.tv.young+restless (Usenet). From the entry velveeta
  • MAPS maintains a database of Internet addresses that it believes send or relay spam.2000 November 26, Linda Seebach, “Unwanted e-mail belongs in an Internet black hole”, in RockyMountainNews.com. From the entry black hole
  • Sporge is a neologism coined by German software developer Tilman Hausherr; it's a contraction of "spammed forgery".1999 September 16, Daniel Rutter, “Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?”, in Australian IT. From the entry sporgery
  • Oh god, remember when the Lion King fandom was huge and everyone was spamming their lionsonas on Deviantart?2020 October 29, u/Redhotlipstik, “He kinda was though”, in r/tumblr, Reddit. From the entry lionsona
  • Fireb0rn takes it a step further, spamming special attacks to dominate bossfights even if they get hit from time to time.2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18…. From the entry bossfight
  • It's the Ultimate Spamwich, which - as they put it - has " spam, eggs, spam, chips, spam, eggs and spam".2016 May 6, Gavin Hanly, “The Hat & Tun launches a spamwich”, in Hot-Dinners.com, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2023. From the entry spamwich
  • Spam texts are encoded but no decryption is possible.2015, Sandy Baldwin, “I Read My Spam”, in The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature (International Texts in…. From the entry community
  • Data exhaust is the mechanism behind many services like voice recognition, spam filters, language translation, and much more.2013, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier, Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform how We Live, Work, and Think, Houghton Mifflin…. From the entry data exhaust
  • Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail.2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70. From the entry im
  • This means that many spam senders will never become whitelisted and email will never be accepted from them.2004 September, Joel Sing, “Combatting Email Borne Pests using Open Source Tools”, in AUUGN, page 84. From the entry whitelisted

Meaning of spam

  1. noun Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
  2. noun Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
  3. noun Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.

Full definition of spam

Questions about spam in a sentence

How do you use spam in a sentence?
Spam is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I get far too much spam.”
What is a short sentence with spam?
“I received 58 spams yesterday.”
What does spam mean?
Spam means unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spam (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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