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Example sentences for: axe

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) 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.”
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.
cask variant of axe.
The name of this nation, first seen in the Shang dynasty oracle bones (2nd millennium B.C.), the earliest complete Chinese script known, is a pictograph of the yuéh `axe,' which may be symmetrical or asymmetric, stone or bronze.
Their goal is "to shore up hunting's popularity," says William Poole, the moron in charge (who I would love to make the first target of my brand-new still-untested self-defense fighting skills--particularly one I just learned that they call the Axe, which involves bringing the heel of my foot right down between his eyes several times).