How to Use battering ram in a Sentence

battering ram

noun

• No more treating mealtime like an attack on a fortified castle, the spoon wielded as a battering ram against closed lips.
  — Olaf Blecker, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
• So in the first quarter, Lance was placed in the role of battering ram three times.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
• As Blake ran to open the front door, one deputy smashed it open with a battering ram.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
• Then Raskin heard the boom-boom-boom of a battering ram against the chamber doors.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
• The officers used a battering ram to break in the door.
  — courier-journal.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• Jim and Andy try to use the office’s copy machine as a battering ram to bust the locked door open.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2020
• The agents did not have a battering ram or breaching tools.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
• Blake Comeau was a battering ram all over the ice with seven hits.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2020
• Some used metal poles as battering rams and broke through the glass doors.
  — Time Staff, Time, 1 July 2019
• The officers banged on the green door with a gold No. 4 on it, then used a battering ram to break it down.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
• Chance Cauthen, the Hawks' battering ram of a goal-line back, punched in a pair of short yardage touchdowns.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2022
• Gators can also whip around with their skull and use it like a battering ram.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 7 May 2022
• Why was the 49ers’ quarterback of the present and the future being used as a short-yardage battering ram?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
• The meth dealer next door to me was hauled away when police showed up with long guns and a battering ram.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• The officers broke down the green door with a gold No. 4 on it using a battering ram.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Sep. 2020
• Siggers is the Mean Green’s battering ram of a running back.
  — Brett Vito Staff Writer, Denton Record-Chronicle, 2 July 2020
• The news set off a mob of more than 150 White men, who used a battering ram to break through the police station where he had been jailed.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• Haaland has not been bought as some sort of battering ram.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2022
• But the spike is also the grappling hook and battering ram that the virus uses to attach to and invade host cells.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Mar. 2021
• Police then broke down the apartment door with a battering ram and fired a series of rounds into the apartment.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020
• The new vehicle will have a battering ram attached to the front equipped with a 360-degree camera.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• In fact, a battering ram was used and Taylor was shot multiple times.
  — Danielle K. Kilgo, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2021
• Nine body cameras are rolling as the officers use a battering ram to break open her door and barge into her home, guns drawn.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
• After about a minute and hearing no response from inside, police use a battering ram to knock in the front door.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 24 Sep. 2020
• Police broke open Bryant’s door with a battering ram, shattering the glass.
  — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
• Agents raided the house in Blooming Grove twice, using a battering ram to enter.
  — Tom Robbins, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• Seattle has a battering ram in running back Chris Carson (#32) and stopping him while spread out to cover the pass isn’t easy.
  — Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• The specifics of Taylor's killing have been laid out in detail: Police arrived after midnight and used a battering ram to knock open the door.
  — Kate Brumback, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
• The specifics of Taylor’s killing have been laid out in detail: Police arrived after midnight and used a battering ram to knock open the door.
  — Kate Brumback, ajc, 15 June 2021
• True to his brand, then, the president is set to embark on his reelection campaign with all the delicacy of a battering ram.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024