How To Use Battering ram In A Sentence
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Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the catheads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions - forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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Throw in battering ram Earl Campbell and the sweet moves of Gale Sayers and this quintet boasts speed, power, elusiveness, receiving skills and game-breaking ability at every turn.
The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final
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Police used teargas and a battering ram to try to gain access.
Times, Sunday Times
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They got a battering ram to smash down the door.
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That was as good as showing a red flag to a bull, and the woman put her head down and thundered forward like a battering ram, flailing her hooked weapon around.
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Instead some use them as battering rams in their war with the other half.
The Sun
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When the bombardment failed, Salisbury's men built a testudo or "tortoise," a wheeled covered shed under which his men worked battering rams.
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They were besieged by opposing armies using towers, battering rams, catapults, and flame weapons.
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There's a battering ram of songs; rushing melodies with only enough pause for him to take a drag on an ever-present cigarette.
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Eugenie Allen says Leslie "doesn't do this loaded issue justice, '' because she" uses a battering ram '' to make her points, and so The Feminine Mistake is "unwieldy" and "polarizing.
Jeremy Gerard: You Say Mystique, I Say Mistake
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Maybeck was fondling the new battering ram, getting a feel for it like a pitcher with a new glove.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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The one-man battering ram 's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pulling his fist back in a massive haymaker, he shot his arm forward with the force of a battering ram.
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Police are replacing the battering ram with the more covert ways of catching the dealers.
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A stern faced agent accompanied by red-coats and bailiffs, complete with battering ram came to a wayside cottage and preceded to evict the poor tenants but not without some stern resistance.
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John undid the latch and opened the door as if he were breaking in, using his shoulder like a battering ram.
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And here was this meeting -- thousands of workingmen, horny handed blacksmiths, longshoremen with shoulders like barns and truckmen with fists like battering rams, long-haired radicals of a hundred dangerous varieties, women who waved red handkerchiefs and shrieked until to Peter they seemed like gorgons with snakes instead of hair.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot
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Police used teargas and a battering ram to try to gain access.
Times, Sunday Times
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The one-man battering ram's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is literally a battering ram with those elbows.
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Clearly warfare conducted through massive land armies, battering rams, javelins and slingshots has little technically in common with warfare today.
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Twice Flandry lay prone and watched combats: bugs swarming over a walking red globe with lobsterish claws; a constrictor shape entangled with a mobile battering ram.
A Circus of Hells
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Earth from the ditch was piled into a second wall, and in the large No Man's Land which existed inside these siegeworks no tree or object tall enough to serve as a battering ram was left standing.
Fortune's Favorites
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The player can use catapults, battering rams, ballistas and ancient ‘elevators’.
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In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
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The one-man battering ram's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The one-man battering ram 's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
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John undid the latch and opened the door as if he were breaking in, using his shoulder like a battering ram.
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Real would love to steal some of those customers away, and " the battering ram is Beckham.
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The cultural and intellectual challenges began because brawn without brain is a useful battering ram, but a useless leader.
Times, Sunday Times
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My GOH liaison, the lovely Laura, came to the con with a cage of bats, which was pretty cool as well, and I met a couple of readers from Bulgaria who told me that in my Bulgarian editions, "battering ram" is translated with the word for a male sheep.
Back from Indianapolis
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The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram
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The battering rams and mangonels would be ready in a few days.
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Before dawn broke on Tuesday, drug crime suspects had a rude awakening as officers with battering rams smashed down doors around the town in an operation to target dealers.
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Instead some use them as battering rams in their war with the other half.
The Sun
