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Sentence count:21Posted:2017-04-19Updated:2026-04-26
Similar words: clammy, hammer, hammock, hammer at, muhammad, sledgehammer, shimmy, mummy. Meaning: ['hwæmɪ /'w-]  n. 1. a serious or devastating setback 2. an evil spell. 
1. He put the whammy on me.
2. Britain's farmers have faced the double whammy of a rising pound and falling agricultural prices.
3. With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.
4. Soften them up, then hit them with the whammy.
5. Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.
6. Farmers have faced the double whammy of a freeze and a drought this year.
7. After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.
8. We're suffering a triple whammy at the moment.
9. This double - whammy drives prices in a direction unfavourable to the customer.
10. Then, the scene of a double whammy - their car broke down again.
11. Yesterday a real double whammy. My boss fired me, and my wife asked for a divorce.
12. Yesterday a real double whammy. My boss fired me and my wife asked a divorce.
13. The government's policy is higher tax and higher interest rates. It's a double whammy.
14. Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy?
15. Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid(sentencedict.com/whammy.html), however unenthusiastically.
16. In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.
17. We've each had our hot streaks, I won't deny: the whammy has changed hands many times.
18. He lost his job and then his wife left him away. It was a double whammy.
19. She lost her job and then her husband left her. It was a double whammy.
20. Mary lost her car yesterday and her job today a real double whammy.
21. He lost his job, and his wife left him. It was a double whammy.
More similar words: clammy, hammer, hammock, hammer at, muhammad, sledgehammer, shimmy, mummy, what, wharf, whale, but what, wharves, whatever, somewhat, come what may, whatsoever, what is more, ham, sham, hamper, shame, shaman, shamus, mammal, ashamed, abraham, ammonia, shamble, mammoth. 
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