HACK in a Sentence

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For HACK, below is one of 34 sentences:
Suellen, behind her mother's hack, wrinkled her nose triumphantly at Scarlett, who had been planning to beg the necklace for herself.

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 Meanings and Examples of HACK
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hack
 v.  cut or chop with repeated blows; break up the surface of; gain access to computer illegally or without authorization
Classic Sentence:
1  Suellen, behind her mother's hack, wrinkled her nose triumphantly at Scarlett, who had been planning to beg the necklace for herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She gave Scarlett a glare as she saw her look longingly at the hack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  He took her to the Arion Ball, and had a hack for her both ways.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  A hack now drove to the door, and the friendly family who had received the fugitives crowded around them with farewell greetings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  That was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  It was Wells who had shouldered him into the square ditch the day before because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
8  The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him; he himself never gives an order.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
9  You might have noted only the physical dying, the shattered frame and hacking cough; but in that soul lay deeper death than that.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
10  I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
11  The uprights which held the thick vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over the grave.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  It had been hacked or torn right out from the roots.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
13  The Scotch Grays no longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
14  And with fury, as it were with passion, the murderer falls on the body, and drags it and hacks at it; so he covered her face and shoulders with kisses.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  He tried to hack database of his school to up his English marks.
2  But what she absolutely refuses to admit is the fact that none of us WANTS to be a hack.
3  We had to hack our way through the jungle.
4  You could hack several workers to help you carry these boxes.
5  There is not a single bit of crime evidence regarding to conspiring with the Russians to hack the Democratic National Committee.
6  An armed gang barged onto the train and began hacking and shooting anyone in sight.
7  We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle.
8  Computer hacking has become very widespread over the last decade.
9  In the past, companies with sloppy approaches have been able to count on their customers' lack of interest in cybersecurity which has dwindled over the years despite a succession of hacking scandals.
10  Thursday's federal indictment of two hackers damningly sets out the real trade problem, because are part of the government-run hacking group.
11  Three villagers were hacked to death in a savage attack.
12  He hacked the box apart with the ax.
13  She hacked away at the ice, trying to make a hole.
14  I hacked the dead branches off.
15  I hacked up a loop program to test the computer's processing speed.