Example sentences for: hatchet

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

  • Yet he is overwrought about our piece in Slate . If you gather from his letter that the Slate assessment was a hatchet job, check it out.

  • A nearby woodsman came and cut open the wolf with a hatchet, freeing the grandmother.

  • Lee Siegel is a regular contributor to the New Republic who has become famous for taking a hatchet to all subjects great and small.

  • I am reluctant to dignify his hatchet job with a lengthy reply, but some of his claims are so defamatory that they should be addressed, if only for the record.

  • The truth is that Wieseltier's piece was a shameful, spite-ridden hatchet job on West, motivated almost entirely by the fact that West had been profiled in The New Yorker in 1994 and then assessed (along with lesser lights bell hooks and Michael Dyson) by me in a January 1995 essay that likened contemporary black intellectuals to the New York intellectuals of the postwar period.


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