HAMMER in a Sentence

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122 example sentences for HAMMER, such as:

1. A hammer is a sort of tool.
2. A hammer can be a lethal weapon.
3. Please hammer down the lid first.
4. He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
5. A good anvil does not fear the hammer.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAMMER
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hammer
 n.  a hand tool consisting of a solid head on a handle, used for pounding
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  When she gets back from Tara she will start again hammer and tongs with the store and those mills which I wish devoutly would explode some night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
2  This morning of late January, two or three weeks after Vida's revelations, Carol had gone into the stable-garage to find a hammer.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
4  Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the windlass, steadily followed by the mate with his menacing hammer, deliberately repeated his intention not to obey.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
5  But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch spouting blood like a whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
7  Nevertheless, this old man's was a patient hammer wielded by a patient arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
8  Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
9  And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
10  There, hammer that knot down, and we've done.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.
11  Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
12  Celina's husband was a fool, a coward, and a pig, and to prove it to her, Victor intended to hammer his head into a jelly the next time he encountered him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
13  He ran up the steps and began to hammer upon the door.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  Then Joe began to hammer and clink, hammer and clink, and we all looked on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Exhibit A is the hammer found next to the victim.
2  A hammer can be a lethal weapon.
3  The worker bashed his finger with a hammer.
4  His entire collection will come under the hammer at next week's sale.
5  A private collection of her early paintings is expected to go under the hammer early next year.
6  A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
7  I dropped a hammer on the floor, and it dented the floorboard.
8  He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
9  The machine can hammer out metal very thin.
10  Please hammer down the lid first.
11  He was chipping away at the rock with a hammer.
12  A hammer is a sort of tool.
13  With his hammer and chisel, the sculptor chipped away at the block of marble.
14  Palmer kept hammering away at his report.
15  He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.