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Example sentences for: hacking

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

But along the way, scores of laborers had died hacking through the mountains, buffalo were exterminated, and Indians and Métis were dispossessed of their lands.
(I'm aware of the counterexample: the dread Harmony Korinne, whose hacking at his canvas is an attempt to disguise his limitations as bold artistic choices.)
While the hacks are hacking away, we've got homework for you as well.
The cover of the NYT "Book Review" (plus an inside WP "Book World" piece) is given to Philip Gourevitch's extraordinary book on the Rwanda massacres, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families . Gourevitch's narrative demonstrates the "collective criminality" of Rwandan Hutus--neighbors hacking neighbors to death--as well as the all-too-familiar inaction of the U.N.
Civil libertarians warned the New York Times that the monitoring could be misused for spying on or hacking into private networks.