Example sentences for: hammered

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

  • 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.

  • The media took up this question and, over the next two hours, hammered out a consensus: "Moderate" Republicans were winning, while "ideologues" were losing.

  • Why do big-studio movies that celebrate wildness and primal man and equate civilization with corruption tend to play as if their plots have been hammered out by Hollywood executives on car phones?

  • 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.

  • For example, on a Vladimir Horowitz piano solo, the keys sounded clangy, a bit metallic, on the Bose; they were warmer, but no less hammered, on the Cambridge.


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