How to Use ramrod in a Sentence

ramrod

noun

• Some walk or point (the men), others are ramrod still (the women).
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Yet the most striking thing about Owens is his hair — which is long, jet-black and ramrod-straight.
  — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2017
• Stankey stands at 6-foot-5, and has a booming voice and the ramrod-straight posture of a military leader.
  — Variety, 9 Apr. 2022
• DeRuntz poured gunpowder down the shaft, stuffing it down with a metal ramrod.
  — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• This was his last season as ramrod of Little Dease Ventures.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2019
• Tall, slender and with ramrod straight posture, Wright takes the audience along with her on her journey.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
• There are an amazing number of huge white pines, all single trunks growing ramrod-straight.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 5 May 2018
• The woman on his hip stood ramrod straight, proudly displaying a navy blue InfoWars T-shirt.
  — Zach Schermele, Teen Vogue, 18 July 2018
• The greatest number milled about in the sun along the Long Walk, a 2.5-mile ramrod straight avenue leading directly to a gate at Windsor Castle.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 24 May 2018
• Members of a Marine honor guard trailed behind, clad in navy blue uniforms, white caps and white gloves, marching ramrod-straight to muffled drums and the clip-clop of horse hoofs.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• Each morning, Chauvin stood ramrod straight to welcome Cahill into the courtroom.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
• To his admirers, Gen. Singlaub was the consummate warrior — a brawny, ramrod-straight man of action with the wounds and decorations to prove the truth of the lore that surrounded him.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
• The troops stood, ramrod straight, in their Army and Marine Corps dress uniforms, in silence, each man and woman giving a slow salute with a white-gloved hand as the name of a fallen service member was called.
  — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• In the klatch of voters watching from their lawn chairs, a woman in a blue windbreaker, maybe in her late twenties, sat ramrod straight, the phone tightly gripped in her hand forgotten for the moment.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2019
• Seeing Lisa standing ramrod straight with a loaded Glock in her hand was as startling to me as seeing her in front of an orchestra waving a baton.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2018
• Fred Darling — whose ramrod-straight military persona faced a constant joyful barrage at home — put his foot down on snakes.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2020
• DeAngelo stood stone-faced and ramrod straight in a courtroom cage, never looking at the courtroom packed with survivors, relatives, reporters and at least a half-dozen armed bailiffs.
  — Fox News, 23 Aug. 2018
• When not feeding, many inchworms disguise themselves like leaf stems or twigs by standing on their hind legs ramrod-straight and freezing like a living statue performer.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2022
• Her posture gradually goes from ramrod-straight to slightly slumped.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2022
• Other key features include a Quake Claw sling, reversible cocking spur, and a solid aluminum PalmSaver ramrod.
  — Brad Fitzpatrick, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2019
• Cher’s contemplative expression and ramrod sedentary posture gave her the aura of a Byzantine icon.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2020
• Naird’s situation is of a man with ramrod-straight posture prostrated and disarrayed at many odd angles.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 28 May 2020
• It is adorned with three generic Confederate soldiers holding ramrods, rifles and swords.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2017
• More significantly, they are loaded through the barrel like an old Revolutionary War musket, with the bullet tamped down with a ramrod.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2020
• An aloof, ramrod-straight Chun during his mid-1990s trial defended the coup as necessary to save the nation from a political crisis and denied sending troops into Gwangju.
  — Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
• Tall, graying and standing ramrod straight, Franken's approach is understated.
  — Thomas Beaumont, ajc, 14 May 2022
• Its protagonist, played with ramrod conviction by Gary Cooper, is a dogmatic modern architect, Howard Roark, who would prefer to starve than to build in the classical style.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
• Galli sat ramrod straight, unruffled, scrolling and replying.
  — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Lia Grimanis, the founder of Up with Women, an organization that helps recently homeless women and families, regards the ramrod-straight with awe.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• Just about anything the IDF buys will be used in action sooner or later—probably sooner—a reality that Tzuker, a ramrod-straight former infantry officer, understood better than most.
  — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2018

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