Thesaurus / cram
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
This is simpler than having to cram and then stand the racket of a competitive examination.
Still he clung to the little thistledown of hope that he should have plenty of time to cram it before the form were called up.
ERIC, OR LITTLE BY LITTLEFREDERIC W. FARRAR
They cram as much fruit as they possibly can into their cheek pouches to take away and eat afterwards at their leisure.
THE ANIMAL STORY BOOKVARIOUS
It would indeed be unreasonable to cram into a single genus both superior and inferior things.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
And the speaker subsided into thoughtful silence, and began slowly to cram his pipe.
FORGING THE BLADESBERTRAM MITFORD
Were I a power in the universe, I would cram the air over the heads of such incarnate greeds with clouds of souls!
THERE AND BACKGEORGE MACDONALD
Think of the divine old man growing a sort of vetch in his garden to cram his pockets with for the deer in Kensington Garden.
Dont cram your cheeks out with food like an ape, for if any one should speak to you, you cant answer, but must wait.
"I will cram the stamps down their throat with the end of my sword," said an officer at New York.
THE TRIAL OF THEODORE PARKERTHEODORE PARKER
God send thee to cram thy slops with French crowns, and thy enemies bellies with bullets.
WORDS RELATED TO CRAM
- apply oneself
- bone up
- brood over
- burn midnight oil
- bury oneself in
- coach
- cogitate
- consider
- crack the books
- cram
- dig
- dive into
- examine
- excogitate
- go into
- go over
- grind
- hit the books
- inquire
- learn
- learn the ropes
- lucubrate
- meditate
- mind
- mull over
- perpend
- peruse
- plug
- plunge
- polish up
- ponder
- pore over
- read
- read up
- refresh
- think
- think out
- think over
- tutor
- weigh
- advise
- brainwash
- break in
- brief
- catechize
- coach
- communicate
- cram
- demonstrate
- develop
- direct
- discipline
- drill
- edify
- enlighten
- exercise
- explain
- expound
- fit
- form
- give instruction
- give lessons
- give the facts
- ground
- guide
- illustrate
- imbue
- impart
- implant
- improve mind
- inculcate
- indoctrinate
- inform
- initiate
- instruct
- interpret
- lecture
- nurture
- open eyes
- polish up
- pound into
- prepare
- profess
- rear
- school
- sharpen
- show
- show the ropes
- train
- tutor
- advise
- brainwash
- break in
- brief
- catechize
- coach
- communicate
- cram
- demonstrate
- develop
- direct
- discipline
- drill
- edify
- enlighten
- exercise
- explain
- expound
- fit
- form
- give instruction
- give lessons
- give the facts
- ground
- guide
- illustrate
- imbue
- impart
- implant
- improve mind
- inculcate
- indoctrinate
- inform
- initiate
- instruct
- interpret
- lecture
- nurture
- open eyes
- polish up
- pound into
- prepare
- profess
- rear
- school
- sharpen
- show
- show the ropes
- train
- tutor
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