HAMMER in a Sentence
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122 example sentences for HAMMER, such as:
1. A hammer is a sort of tool.
2. A hammer can be a lethal weapon.
3. Please hammer down the lid first.
4. A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
5. He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
2. A hammer can be a lethal weapon.
3. Please hammer down the lid first.
4. A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
5. He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HAMMER
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hammer
n. the ossicle attached to the eardrum
n. the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1 When she gets back from Tara she will start again hammer and tongs with the store and those mills which I wish devoutly would explode some night.
2 This morning of late January, two or three weeks after Vida's revelations, Carol had gone into the stable-garage to find a hammer.
3 When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer.
4 Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the windlass, steadily followed by the mate with his menacing hammer, deliberately repeated his intention not to obey.
5 But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
6 Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch spouting blood like a whale.
7 Nevertheless, this old man's was a patient hammer wielded by a patient arm.
8 Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.
9 And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line.
10 There, hammer that knot down, and we've done.
11 Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
12 Celina's husband was a fool, a coward, and a pig, and to prove it to her, Victor intended to hammer his head into a jelly the next time he encountered him.
13 He ran up the steps and began to hammer upon the door.
14 It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home.
15 Then Joe began to hammer and clink, hammer and clink, and we all looked on.
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 Exhibit A is the hammer found next to the victim.
2 A hammer can be a lethal weapon.
3 The worker bashed his finger with a hammer.
4 His entire collection will come under the hammer at next week's sale.
5 A private collection of her early paintings is expected to go under the hammer early next year.
6 A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
7 I dropped a hammer on the floor, and it dented the floorboard.
8 He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
9 The machine can hammer out metal very thin.
10 Please hammer down the lid first.
11 He was chipping away at the rock with a hammer.
12 A hammer is a sort of tool.
13 With his hammer and chisel, the sculptor chipped away at the block of marble.
14 Palmer kept hammering away at his report.
15 He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.