Example sentences for: hammer

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

  • The Florentine artist was just 25, and justly proud enough to append his signature (the only surviving example), visible on the Madonna’s sash . Since a religious fanatic attacked it with a hammer in 1972, the statue is protected by bullet-proof glass.

  • The hammer, or cock , of the gunlock usually can be in one of three positions: down (fully forward and down); at half cock (partly back, to allow a flintlock to be carried with the pan closed or the percussion cap to be placed on the nipple of a percussion arm); or at full cock . In the half cock position, the trigger is not “partially back-locked,” whatever that means.

  • Teddy Roosevelt liked to take a 9 pound sledge hammer out to the woods and pound a moose into the ground up to its antlers.

  • The clock mechanism, all gilt and polychrome enamel, still keeps perfect time, activating statues of two green bronze Moors that hammer out the hour.

  • We will wake up at noon, stumble over to the keyboard in our pajamas, hammer out 1,000 words, and then--without talking to a single bothersome editor--make our work available to all data brokers.


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