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Example sentences for: hatchet

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The town plan was the inspiration of the Marquês of Pombal, the dynamic hatchet man of King José I, and the town was built from scratch in just five months in 1774, aping the grid layout of Lisbon’s Baixa (lower city).
Milosevic seemed destined to die a hatchet man.
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.
There's much to be said for the tone of comic-book violence: "He buried his triangular face like the blade of a hatchet in her neck."
Lee Siegel is a regular contributor to the New Republic who has become famous for taking a hatchet to all subjects great and small.