How to Use battering ram in a Sentence
battering ram
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Chemotherapy is like a battering ram where aggressive strikes are a good strategy.
—Carla K. Johnson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024
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So in the first quarter, Lance was placed in the role of battering ram three times.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
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As Blake ran to open the front door, one deputy smashed it open with a battering ram.
—NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
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Then Raskin heard the boom-boom-boom of a battering ram against the chamber doors.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
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The officers used a battering ram to break in the door.
—courier-journal.com, 14 Mar. 2022
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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
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The agents did not have a battering ram or breaching tools.
—Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
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Blake Comeau was a battering ram all over the ice with seven hits.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2020
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Some used metal poles as battering rams and broke through the glass doors.
—Time Staff, Time, 1 July 2019
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The officers banged on the green door with a gold No. 4 on it, then used a battering ram to break it down.
—Faith Karimi, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
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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
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Gators can also whip around with their skull and use it like a battering ram.
—Forrest Brown, CNN, 7 May 2022
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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
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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
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The officers broke down the green door with a gold No. 4 on it using a battering ram.
—Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Sep. 2020
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Siggers is the Mean Green’s battering ram of a running back.
—Brett Vito Staff Writer, Denton Record-Chronicle, 2 July 2020
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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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Haaland has not been bought as some sort of battering ram.
—New York Times, 17 June 2022
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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
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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
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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
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In fact, a battering ram was used and Taylor was shot multiple times.
—Danielle K. Kilgo, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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Police broke open Bryant’s door with a battering ram, shattering the glass.
—Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
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Agents raided the house in Blooming Grove twice, using a battering ram to enter.
—Tom Robbins, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
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Seattle has a battering ram in running back Chris Carson (#32) and stopping him while spread out to cover the pass isn’t easy.
—Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
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The specifics of Taylor’s killing have been laid out in detail: Police arrived after midnight and used a battering ram to knock open the door.
—Kate Brumback, ajc, 15 June 2021
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The specifics of Taylor's killing have been laid out in detail: Police arrived after midnight and used a battering ram to knock open the door.
—Kate Brumback, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
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This year, Hess is offering a Police Truck and Cruiser (one of which comes with a slide-out battering ram and the other promises ‘wheelie poppin’ action’).
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
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