was hamming
- past progressive of ham.
Example Sentences
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Equally, you might not have believed her for a second, and thought she was hamming up her pain because it's all gone wrong.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
When the camera rolled, she was all poise and precision, and when the director yelled cut, she was hamming it up for everyone.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021
Enter Ian Poulter, who, on the 10th tee, was hamming it up with patrons, delivering his share of laughs and garnering shouts of encouragement and applause.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 4, 2018
One of the attorneys objected that an actor was hamming it up, but Judge Grady pronounced himself delighted by the lively break from what is typically the "dullest part of a trial."
From Time Magazine Archive
Titters had begun at the way the girl playing Ismene was hamming it up.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
