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Example sentences for "cram"

Lexicographically close words:
crains; craint; crainte; crake; crallis; crammed; crammer; cramming; cramoisy; cramp
  1. We cram on ornaments when we want to cover or screen a defect.

  2. Must on thy master's premises be finally put by; And in it there some juveniles, who cannot get a ride, May cram themselves, by climbing up the wheels on every side.

  3. Fashionable dupes of homoeopathy betray, Who smallest globules cram with the very biggest flam, Swallowing both together in the most prodigious way.

  4. We were at the same private school, and he was at m'tutors, and we were never much separated till he went abroad to cram for the Diplomatic and I started east to shoot things.

  5. If, having invited our friends to eat with us, we fail to cram them with rich stuffs, we must be regarded as miserly.

  6. Hence we think it a sacred duty to cram our guests with rich food, and we cherish the hope that they will do likewise for us, when their turn comes!

  7. Cram did not appear nor would he eat, sending back untouched the tray the chef sent in.

  8. On his way to find Ryan he saw Cram sitting outside the General Offices, where the Board was working.

  9. The awakened love birds scolded softly as Cram felt under the floor of the cage.

  10. Dulcie clung close to Doctor Trigg, with Red Ryan as a bulwark on the other side, and Cram close in the rear.

  11. Later, in the club car, David found Cram reading a magazine.

  12. What use to tell Cram how that watch had been carried by its intrepid owner into Africa, and through the jungles of South America?

  13. A minute later, Cram stood smiling beside them, breathless but still self-assured.

  14. Searching each face, Walter Cram saw only the reflection of his own disgrace.

  15. He shoved Cram before him into the salon, and stopped.

  16. Weren't we to pick up Walter Cram here at Lakehurst?

  17. Speaking in a low tone, he told her how, almost four years ago, David had passed his entrance exams to the pilots' school, while Cram had failed.

  18. The cocksure arrogance of Cram was funny, yet it stuck in David's mind.

  19. Mary has left a little space for me to fill up with nonsense, as the geographers used to cram monsters in the voids of the maps, and call it Terra Incognita.

  20. Can I cram loves enough to you all in this little O?

  21. We had crawfish for breakfast, crawfish for dinner, crawfish for supper, and crawfish for any incidental meal we could cram in between.

  22. Cram the mind and starve the heart--this is the great popular idolatry.

  23. I crushed, compressed, and bruised, but as fast as I managed it on one side it burst out on another, and defied me to cram it into the narrow box of Possum Gully.

  24. Liza, do not put a whole slice of bread to your mouth like that, and cram so.

  25. I often thought I could beat Fraser and Hunt at exams, for they used to cram fearfully--but how you must have worked!

  26. We then learn only useful things, and don't cram our heads with pedantic knowledge.

  27. I know not your charge, or who it is that brings it; but I will disprove it, whatever it be, when it is clearly stated, and will cram his falsehood down his throat whenever I know his name who makes it.

  28. Nancy Nelson came near laughing right out in the classroom; but she could cram both letters into her pocket and go on with her studies with a more composed mind.

  29. Nevertheless, Nancy managed to cram into her waking hours an immense amount of fun as well as lessons.

  30. Set her in a field, she runs to cram her hands with daisies.

  31. The frog would spring from a golden chair into his native swamp; and the bird escapes when he can, though you cram his cage with sugar.

  32. When on the concert platform The prodigy appears I do not grudge his welcome, The clappings and the cheers; But I can't forgive the people Who down our throats would cram The novelists from the nursery, The poets from the pram.

  33. Oh, bitter are the insults And bitter is the shame Heaped on deserving authors Of high and strenuous aim, When all the best booksellers Their shelves and windows cram With novels from the nursery And poems from the pram.

  34. Cram me not thou with honey, when our good hive Needs every sting to save it.

  35. And thou, my carrier-pigeon of black news, Cram thy crop full, but come when thou art call'd.

  36. A man may cram his skull till it hurts with Bowditch, but if he hain't sense he'll never be a sailor.

  37. Cram Bowditch into yer head, and keep a sharp look ahead.

  38. The day became dark; the sun went out; but Hudson bade us cram on sail, because every hour he looked to hear the roar of the sea.

  39. He said merely, "They cram on yet more sail.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cram" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allay; application; assault; bear; bellyful; bolt; boost; buck; bull; bump; bumper; bunt; butt; capacity; charge; chock; choke; cloy; coach; compact; complement; compress; concentrate; condense; consolidate; contemplation; cram; crowd; crush; devour; dig; drench; drill; drive; elbow; exercise; fill; force; freight; glut; goad; gobble; gorge; grind; grinding; gulp; guzzle; hurtle; hustle; inspection; jade; jam; jolt; jostle; lade; lading; load; mouthful; nudge; overburden; overcharge; overdose; overload; overweight; pack; pad; pall; perusal; poke; practice; prepare; press; prime; prod; punch; push; ram; rattle; raven; reading; review; run; sate; satiate; satisfy; saturate; shake; shoulder; shove; skinful; slake; slop; slosh; soak; solidify; squash; squeeze; stow; stress; study; stuff; subject; surcharge; surfeit; tamp; teem; thrust; tutor; wad; weight; wolf