How to Use ram in a Sentence

ram

verb
  • The car slid and rammed against the wall.
  • He opened the chute and rammed the clothes down.
  • She rammed her fist against the wall in anger.
  • She rammed the cork into the barrel.
  • They deliberately rammed my car from behind.
  • He deliberately rammed his car into mine.
  • Each opening gets rammed right through.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Once, her head was rammed against the side of a truck by police.
    — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Garfield grabbed her by the arm and rammed his head into her torso.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The streets were so rammed with people that the bus could barely move.
    — Tom Williams, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Over the coming months, students rammed her desk with their chairs.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
  • In a marina next door, some of the boats lay half-sunken or rammed against docks.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Davis rammed his eagle putt six feet past the hole and missed the birdie putt coming back.
    — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Riders could even make the saucers ram into each other like bumper cars.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Do not ram your car into an officer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Survivors later said the coast guard vessel rammed their boat.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This man walked in, grabbed me by the back of my neck, turned me around, and rammed his nasty-ass tongue down my throat.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The van rammed through a fence onto the game field, Dee said, but deputies did not follow.
    — Melissa Murphy, The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The suspect was slightly injured when the civilian rammed him with a car.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The attacker had rammed his four-door pickup truck into the front of the chapel.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Rosh Hashanah begins with the blowing of a shofar, or ram’s horn.
    — al, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Police had to ram the apartment’s front door to open it, Contee said.
    — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Caught between predator and prey, Potter gets rammed twice by the shark.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Carroll rammed his left knee into the fence in the sixth inning and was removed from the game.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Rashid said the car began ramming people about 10 feet away from him.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
  • The store showed signs of having been rammed with a vehicle, though nothing was stolen.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Members of a pod had been ramming and shaking boats in the area for more than three years, and had now sunk four.
    — Sallie Tisdale, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The teen got in his car, then rammed into his father’s truck, officials wrote.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
  • He gets rammed by a second vehicle and pushed up on top of the vehicle’s hood.
    — Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Police rammed the door open and saw the man standing in the middle of the bedroom chugging a beer.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2017

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