Sentence examples for like whammy from inspiring English sources

What's more, if you're someone who spent your teenage years blasting B-52s' albums like "Whammy!" on your Walkman, this place is a dream come true.

Here are players memorable only because of their silly names, like Whammy Douglas and Choo Choo Coleman and Sibby Sisti and Clyde Kluttz.

"I remember I named him the same name as my brother and I was thinking please don't let this be like a whammy or something … and it's just like a nightmare".

When a gadget is added to the instrument -- like the whammy bar on the Stratocaster that allows a player to bend all the strings at once -- it's soon making sounds that nobody foresaw.

It was like a double whammy.

That'll feel like a double whammy, straight in the mush.

"It feels like a double whammy - the second time something terrible has happened in six years," said Mr MacSporran, 56.

"It looks like a triple whammy – a warm ocean, a warm atmosphere, and a wind pattern all working against the ice in the Arctic," said NSIDC director Mark Serreze.

The gene combination, said Dr. Michael Bristow, a heart failure expert at the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, "is like a double whammy to the failing heart".

In retrospect it does seem like the double whammy of Don't Look Now and The Wicker Man was a last hurrah.

It was like a double whammy and he would try to abuse me sometimes even with my sister in the same house.