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Example sentences for "rammed"

Lexicographically close words:
ramified; ramifies; ramify; ramifying; ramis; rammer; rammers; ramming; ramo; ramp
  1. Trudeau rammed it to the bottom with his pole.

  2. The fighting rocket rammed out from the asteroid, snapping him back against the seat.

  3. He rammed the controls full ahead and the dying rocket cut space, curving slowly as flaming fuel spurted from the ruptured tanks.

  4. Rip threw the rocket into a turn that rammed him against the top of his harness.

  5. It rammed home and he squeezed the release.

  6. He thoughtfully lowered the hammer of the sixshooter and rammed it down to the trigger-guard behind the waistband of his trousers.

  7. You rammed it into a rock with more points than a barb-wire fence.

  8. As I rammed home a ball on top of a charge of powder poured in by guess I looked out at our barricade and saw the lodges standing in it intact.

  9. Abbott and I rammed the charges in; Tsistsaki inserted a fresh fuse.

  10. Then silently, and with every precaution to avoid making a sound which would arouse the Malays, they crammed a charge of powder into the six-pounder, and rammed down upon it a couple of bags of grape.

  11. Then he grasped his rifle with feverish hands, and in spite of the fact that it was still hot rammed a charge in.

  12. While he spoke he rammed fresh charges into the two muskets with feverish energy, his eyes all the time roaming from the surface of the river to the figures on the far bank.

  13. He sat down on a lump of frozen snow, kicked off his snowshoes, and rammed a plug of tobacco into his pipe.

  14. Seeing that one of the Germans might escape in the dark, the Broke (named after Captain Broke of the Shannon in the War of 1812) turned and rammed her amidships.

  15. Charge a number of cases, exactly two inches long, with different colours; use the same scoop to all, and give each the same number of blows, that they may be rammed as uniformly as possible.

  16. If the rocket is not rammed firm throughout, it will, upon lighting, explode.

  17. Very small rockets, 2/8, are made for children; they are rammed solid, and a hole is pushed up them with a bradawl.

  18. The cases are to be rammed solid throughout, on a foot, fig.

  19. The mixing and laying should all be done very thoroughly; the concrete should be rammed in position, and any old surface of concrete which has to be covered should be cleaned and coated with fresh cement.

  20. If the situation is cool, the stone hard, and the concrete carefully rammed directly it is laid down and kept moist with damp cloths, only just sufficient to moisten the whole mass is required.

  21. If for important walls, or for small scantlings such as steel concrete generally involves, the concrete should be deposited in quite small quantities and very carefully rammed into position.

  22. If the refill is not well rammed and tamped, the trench will settle and cause a bad depression in the street surface.

  23. Where the tunnels are, dirt will have to be rammed in with a long rammer, care being taken not to disturb the pipe.

  24. I managed to crawl back to their car and when they started shooting at Uncle Merritt I took their car and rammed it down the street in an effort to attract their attention and give him a chance to escape.

  25. The big machine rammed into a pile of bricks and stalled.

  26. Meantime the man went down the white steps and strode along the pavement, his hands rammed deep into the pockets of his fawn overcoat.

  27. He kept his hands rammed in his pockets, he was as stiff-backed as ever, only his head hung down.

  28. To risk being rammed headlong two thousand feet in the air was beyond their latter-day courage.

  29. He felt his stem going down, his hands tightened on the levers, whirled and rammed the engine back.

  30. It instantly ran behind one of these, and there remained while I drew the shot, and had nearly rammed down one of the balls (enclosed in greased cloth) that I constantly carried in my pocket ready for immediate use.

  31. The town of Brunei (now a miserable place) was a water city like Venice, the houses being raised on poles rammed into the mud.

  32. Moreover, this king had anticipated American fashions, and had three plugs of gold let into each front tooth, while gold seems also to have been rammed in between the teeth.

  33. He started off again with a leap, dashed at the fore-rigging, rammed the pin into its hole violently.

  34. They swept the money with care into broad palms, rammed it trustfully into trousers' pockets, or, turning their backs on the table, reckoned with difficulty in the hollow of their stiff hands.

  35. The contents of the canisters were therefore emptied into stockings, which were rammed home with greater ease, and fired with much effect.

  36. Back they went for a hundred yards, while the fuse burnt its slow, sputtering way down through the "tamping" Bill had rammed around it.

  37. That was a slow-match that stuck out of the hole he had drilled in the rock, and it led down to the charge of powder he had skilfully rammed in at the bottom.

  38. The earth, as they took it out, they rammed under the benches.

  39. No cut wads are used, but pieces of paper, rammed home with a rod, which instead of being carried attached to the gun is held in the hand together with the slow-match.

  40. Mowbray recommends a floor of "well-rammed chalk or earth, that its surface, being smooth, may present no impediment to being swept perfectly clean.

  41. Luckily the horse, forgetting for the moment its weariness in the terror of this sudden onslaught, sprang forward without waiting for the spurs now rammed so hard and deep into its ribs.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rammed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.