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Usage examples of cram.

Gaines belted it on, and accepted a helmet, into which he crammed his head, leaving the antinoise ear flaps up.

Why did masses of them crammed into convention hotel room parties exude such clouds of antisexual pheromones?

Once out, Apolline had demanded to take a tour of the city, and had followed her nose to the busiest thoroughfare she could find, its pavements crammed with shoppers, children and dead-beats.

He reaches up and drags down hay in hurried armsful and crams it into the rack.

A truck went by but the front bench was filled not just with the driver but three fetching looking girls as well, while the back was crammed with at least six cattle.

Not long after returning to Cala Palace, Prince Conrig had commanded Sir Hale to cram as much martial training as possible into his young protege during the few weeks available to them, even if it left Snudge temporarily lame.

Tables, wardrobes, commodes, mirrors, chairs - the contents of a seven-bedroomed mansion crammed into a three-room shack.

There was an unmade twin bed crammed against the wall and a single nightstand on which rested a phone, an alarm clock, and one framed picture -a Chasidic man standing next to, but not touching, a young girl of about fourteen.

It had been worth every tedious minute of the three years of endless cramming for the law degree that had eased him on to the fast track, one of the first ever graduates to make it to the new accelerated promotion stream in the Derbyshire force.

Thomas could have sung a Te Deum in praise of Saint Sebastian if his mouth had not been crammed with mud, for his rescuer was Father Hobbe, who must have heard the frantic shouting and come run- ning down the alley to investigate.

The ship, crammed with French recruits for the African regiments, had pitched and rolled almost incessantly for thirty-one hours, and Domini and most of the recruits had been ill.

The gallery was crammed with Dedelphi: sail-like ears, leathery skin, round, multi-lidded eyes, all watching a gathering on a proscenium stage.

Snatching up her plastic toiletries kit from the back of the sink, she crammed it down between the etagere and wastebasket.

Asha took the little featherbed that had been crammed onto the window seat in the dormer at the narrow end.

I drizzled honey on a piece of the leathery flatbread and rolled it around a little white cheese, cramming my mouth full while she was busy talking.