Examples of “flam” in a Sentence

noun A lie or a deceptive trick meant to mislead someone.

• His excuse turned out to be nothing but a flam to get out of trouble.

verb To deceive someone with a made-up story.

• He tried to flam his boss with a story about a family emergency.

noun In drumming, a quick pair of strokes — a soft grace note right before a louder main beat — played so close together they sound almost like one note.

• The drummer opened the fill with a sharp flam on the snare.