hammer

Definition:
1. A tool with a handle and a heavy metal head, used for breaking things or hitting nails.
2. Beat with or as if with a hammer.
3. Create by hammering.

Use 'hammer' in a sentence:

• 1. Events like the hammer and the discus are not traditional crowd-pleasers in the West.
• 2. What kind of the hammer is it?
• 3. He bashed her over the head with a hammer.
• 4. To avoid damaging the tree, hammer a wooden peg into the hole.
• 5. We had to hammer and shout before they would open up.
• 6. Surely that is a hammer.
• 7. It would be a tragedy to go your entire life as a "hammer" doing the job of a "screwdriver". Everybody has a purpose and a reason they were created.
• 8. My heart was hammering. The footsteps had stopped outside my door.
• 9. The craftsmen came only to work, collecting their hammer stones and grindstones nearby and the chunks of ocher from perhaps as far away as 12 miles.
• 10. Don't go your entire life as a "hammer" doing the job of a "screwdriver".
• 11. Builders were still hammering outside the window.
• 12. He's the champion wrestler an' he can jump higher than any other chap an' throw th' hammer farther.
• 13. You've already known that ice is brittle, and if you hit it with a hammer, it will shatter like glass.
• 14. Beth spoke of Dr. Hammer in laudatory terms.
• 15. The word in Hebrew is something that's been beaten out, like a metal worker would hammer out a thin sheet of metal.
• 16. She had been viciously attacked with a hammer.
• 17. On Mondays, eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with scrubbing-brushes and hammer and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.
• 18. He wandered about with his hammer and nails, repairing whatever was in need of fixing.
• 19. He broke into the old man's house and bludgeoned him with a hammer.
• 20. If we turned up late we would be hammered by everybody.
• 21. He hammered the young Austrian player in four straight sets.
• 22. He has set about carving up the company which Hammer created from almost nothing.
• 23. He presented Albert with a rat, and every time the baby reached out to touch it, Watson hit a steel bar with a hammer to produce a horrendous clang.
• 24. Hammer's business pedigree almost guaranteed him the acquaintance of U.S. presidents.
• 25. I could hear somebody hammering next door.
• 26. The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries.
• 27. The judge brought his hammer down on the table.
• 28. What I do is that I select a hard stone hammer.
• 29. He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
• 30. Recent advertising campaigns from the industry have hammered at these themes.
• 31. Put down the hammer and screwdriver, and place the socket over the nut and turn.
• 32. There is a harp making its melodious harmonious sounds, and then you take an ax to the harp, bang bang bang, chop chop chop, or a hammer whatever.
• 33. Someone was hammering at the door.
• 34. He used another rock as a hammer to hit the gold-colored lump.
• 35. Have you ever used a hammer and screwdriver to loosen a nut from a bolt?
• 36. It will hurt people differ to the extent to watch me slam my thumb with a hammer.
• 37. Hail was hammering down onto the roof.
• 38. She swung the hammer at his head with all her might.
• 39. Our team was hammered 5-1.
• 40. He hammered the wedge into the crack in the stone.
• 41. Eventually, you give up this tool and go back to the hammer.
• 42. He hammered the ball into the net.
• 43. He was hammering the sheet of copper flat.
• 44. I think we can hammer out a solution.
• 45. She hammered the nail in.
• 46. She hammered the nail into the wall.
• 47. He hit the nail squarely on the head with the hammer.
• 48. The workmen sawed and hammered all day.
• 49. You could smash the drawer up with a hammer.
• 50. The decision is a hammer blow for the steel industry.
• 51. They also hammered away at Labor's plans to raise taxes.