Example sentences for: hammer

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

  • In any of the bronze foundries, you’ll find the same medieval scene, with a boy apprentice pumping the bellows to keep a charcoal fire blazing while the smiths hammer away.

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

  • The tissues were then pulverized using a frozen steel block and hammer.

  • But to a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.

  • 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.


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