The phrase "ramming up" is not a commonly used phrase in written English.
It is more often used as a colloquial phrase. If you are trying to use it in a sentence, you would want to clarify what you mean by "ramming up" and you would also want to give an example of the context. For example: "The bulldozers started ramming up the earth to prepare the site for construction."
Suddenly, the seemingly borderless Internet is ramming up against real borders.
Combined with the fact that he's a strong, downhill runner who isn't afraid to create a hole by ramming up the backsides of his linemen, he seems to be the product of a mad football scientist who spliced Rice with Frank Gore's build.
Yet this new, postmodern Islam with a hard Middle Eastern edge is ramming up against another import: the glitzy materialism that in Malaysia and Indonesia is associated with nominally communist China.
"Then why don't you move?" "Because I've got a pole rammed up my arse".
During one of his first sexual experiences, the girl asked him, mortifyingly, "Should I have all that rammed up my guts?" ("Yes," Golding stammered).
For decades the poor neighbourhood of Colonia Libertad, rammed up against the border fence, has served as a base for illicit crossings.
It started promisingly, with Nesbitt walking in on his doctor neighbour's flat to find him not just with his throat slit but with two of his fingers cut off and rammed up his nostrils.
"No sophisticate dares object to the swearwords, joke Jesus, a missionary having his sacred book rammed up his bum, or comic songs about female circumcision and the superstition that raping babies cures Aids," she writes.
Orlando – he would not give his last name – described how for three terrible hours he lay motionless on the ground in a back bathroom of the club, his head rammed up against the toilet bowl, trying to maintain total silence.
Elder Price has the Book of Mormon rammed up his keister by an African rebel called General Butt-Fucking Naked; the devout doofus, prohibited by his faith from imbibing caffeine, has a spooky Mormon "hell-dream," in which he is pursued by gigantic cups of Starbucks coffee.
For our campsite, he chose what seemed the safest, most sheltered location near the island's south shore -- out of harm's way, and back from the thick, upended slabs of sea ice that have rammed up against the island to the north.
