How to Use battering ram in a Sentence

battering ram

noun
  • Gators can also whip around with their skull and use it like a battering ram.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 7 May 2022
  • As Blake ran to open the front door, one deputy smashed it open with a battering ram.
    — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Blake Comeau was a battering ram all over the ice with seven hits.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2020
  • So in the first quarter, Lance was placed in the role of battering ram three times.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Then Raskin heard the boom-boom-boom of a battering ram against the chamber doors.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 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
  • Ram-Man is a warrior known for using his head as a battering ram.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Video showed a battering ram vehicle cruising down a street.
    — Charlotte Observer, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The attackers swayed back and forth, their bodies working as battering rams.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Police broke open Bryant’s door with a battering ram, shattering the glass.
    — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 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
  • Police broke down her door with a battering ram and entered with guns drawn, according to the station.
    — Dom Calicchio, Fox News, 17 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
  • The case containing the spermaceti could be used as a battering ram during fights.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
  • Seeing the flag being used as a battering ram against the police was heartbreaking.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Instead of collapsing on the beach, a tsunami rushes ashore like a battering ram.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Instead, Murphy said, a tactical team broke down the door with a battering ram.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2021
  • In this reading, Ukraine is merely acting as the West’s battering ram.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
  • 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
  • Jonathan Mattingly in the leg, after officers broke down the door with a battering ram.
    — Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • In one image an officer appears to use a handheld battering ram to force entry into the front gate.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Agents raided the house in Blooming Grove twice, using a battering ram to enter.
    — Tom Robbins, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
  • 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 one image from the arrest, an officer appears to use a handheld battering ram to force entry into the front gate of the home.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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