ramrod

How To Use ramrod In A Sentence

• It was all one to me if they decided on arquebuses; after a month spent listening to them prosing about jamming ramrods, and getting oil on my trousers, I found myself sharing the view of old General Scarlett, who once told me: The Sky Writer
• With his ramrod posture and off-the-cuff New York delivery, Dean did not meet that need.
• She was sitting ramrod straight in her chair, with perfect posture, of course.
• At the end of the second round he had opened up a 18-11 advantage mainly thanks to his ramrod right which he used with unerring accuracy.
• Also included is our custom made collapsible brass and wood ramrod that tucks neatly into the fore-end when not in use and a wrench for easy removal of the breech plug for both safety and easy cleaning.
• His priest makes an unrelaxed figure — ramrod-spined, peering suspiciously over his moustache. Times, Sunday Times
• Her body was ramrod straight, stiff with tension.
• She thought of her dad with his ramrod back and his ramrod soul, dignified to the marrow. PROSPECT HILL
• Except that Bill Ayers conveys nothing of the ramrod toughness of the fascist right that Gramm conveyed, but, rather, a milquetoasty soft-focus optimism based on an illusion of our government operating as a perfect democracy that gets its direction from the street, rather than from those we elect to make good appointments and to represent us for us in this highly imperfect union, sort of. Bill Ayers on Arne Duncan: "the smart choice, the unity choice"
• Stark's regiment loaded the powder and wad into the muzzle of their gun, and with a ramrod forced a musketball into the burning hot barrel of the weapon.