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How to use ramrod in a sentence

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Blackstone entered, his back ramrod straight, as if he were still in the military.
All the brass furniture including the buttplate, sideplate, ramrod thimbles, trigger guard, and patchbox were hand polished bright.
The next step is ensuring an unloaded firearm, which is accomplished with the ramrod as explained earlier.
Contemporary drill manuals dictated twenty separate steps to load and fire the Bess, including five just to replace the ramrod.
Another plus on the side of safety is the length of the ramrod, which matches the distance from base of breech to muzzle.
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.
I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod.
This produces enough tension to keep the ramrod from wiggling around and cancels the tendency to come loose from the barrel groove under recoil.
Her mother spat fire whenever she caught Danielle sitting in any position other than the normal prim and proper, ramrod stiff spine lady pose.
Raven now withdrew a metal ramrod that was set beneath the metal tube, and stared at it.
We both rammed the ball down at the same time, throwing the ramrod over our shoulders carelessly.
The magazine that was in my hand flew from my hand and up I stood like a ramrod and trampled out into the stairwell.
Walking over to the wall, he pulled his body gracefully up and sat down with his back ramrod straight.
He walks over to his locker, stiff-legged, his back ramrod straight, and grabs his change of clothes.
With his back ramrod straight, he balances a heavy water jug on his head, spilling not a drop, and turns to trudge up the hill.
She was sitting ramrod straight in her chair, with perfect posture, of course.
He handed over his passport to the ramrod stiff guard in the booth and waited.
With his ramrod posture and off-the-cuff New York delivery, Dean did not meet that need.
I lay down beside him on my back, stiff as a ramrod, praying he wasn't going to do what he did.
Every time he appeared on screen, with his ramrod straight posture and gaze of steel, my friends and I would burst out laughing.
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The dog did not look at her, but crocked under him the leg that had been stiff like a ramrod and spread out another.
There was not time for him to withdraw the ramrod, much less to put on a cap.
He got out his little bottle of oil and a rag and ramrod to clean his rifle.
Gray haired and sixty, he stood straight as a ramrod, six feet four in his stockings.
He jammed it all down with the ramrod, and I was never able to get it up again.
Guichard worked quickly with powder horn and ramrod to load his rifle.
As he fell, she seized the ramrod from his hand and took his place.
Monsieur Carmaignac was little, lean, and as straight as a ramrod.
He was tiny, but straight as a ramrod in his natty khaki uniform.
We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs.
The ball was rather tight, and offered some resistance to the ramrod.
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