ram

Example Sentences

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Seattle inexplicably decided to throw instead of handing off to battering ram Marshawn Lynch, who was all but automatic in short-yardage situations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

Two balls into Australia's Plan B, one that reduced the series' best bowler in Starc to a battering ram, Brook backed away and almost top-edged a catch to the fielder lurking at third.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

In theory, other EU countries could override Belgium and ram the initiative through with a weighted majority but that would be a nuclear option that few see as likely for now.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025

They smashed directly on target, saturating the entire length of the ram.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques