Example sentences for: axe

How can you use “axe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But there is a hazard coming up: It is no use crying over spilt milk (F) Ce qui est fait est fait What is done is done; (G) Was geschehen ist, ist geschehen What has happened, has happened; (R) \?\ What has been written with the pen cannot be hacked out with an axe; (S) A lo hecho, pecho To what has been done, courage [literally breast].

  • cask variant of axe.

  • The piece points out that up to just a few years ago, at most companies office relationships were grounds for dismissal, with the junior member of the couple typically getting the axe, but that nowadays, such companies as IBM, AT&T, Corning and Xerox have moved to the view that such relationships cannot be banned but can be managed.

  • ) After other introductory pleasantries Shaw confessed, “I had an axe of my own to grind; and I thought that Professor Wilson's book might help me to grind it.”

  • Abu Zubaydah, who worked closely with the al Qaeda leadership, has stated that KSM originally presented Bin Ladin with a scaled-down version of the 9/11 plan, and that Bin Ladin urged KSM to expand the operation with the comment, "Why do you use an axe when you can use a bulldozer?"


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