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Example sentences for: hammered

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That puffy lyricism, that gorgeous hysteria of escape ("From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon"), that fattened medievalism, that quality of out-Shakespearing Shakespeare, has been hammered by contemporary criticism into harder shape.
On your left, in the wall of the corner house, thousands of nails have been hammered into a piece of wood under a small image of Vaisha Dev, the toothache god.
boss Donald Smith tucked in his flowing white beard and hammered home the famous Last Spike — after misjudging his first swing and bending a first spike over double.
The NYT lead says that details of the U.S. aid to Brazil are still being hammered out, and that the U.S. aid package itself has not yet been publicly announced.
This week's East Coast spin: OK, we didn't get hammered, but we got really wet.