axe

[æks]

Definition:
1. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
2. Chop or split with an ax.
3. Terminate.

Use 'axe' in a sentence:

• 1. It's the hand axe.
• 2. Then the woodcutter let his axe fly – Thwack! Everyone heard it.
• 3. Up to 300 workers are facing the axe at a struggling Merseyside firm.
• 4. Both candidates were from other party and had other axes to grind.
• 5. The edge of this axe has turned.
• 6. George Osborne is taking the axe to middle-class entitlements.
• 7. Vera has been axed from the team.
• 8. Public services should be maintained but administration expenses need to be axed to a minimum.
• 9. I strike bad people's heads off; and I hear that my axe rings!
• 10. Construct a set of rectangular axes and resolve any inclined forces into rectangular components.
• 11. Please sharpen the edge of this axe.
• 12. Clang, clang goes the woodman's axe.
• 13. When you have finished using the axe, please replace it.
• 14. 750 jobs were axed as a result of government spending cuts.
• 15. First, you have to have a sharp axe.
• 16. The stuff in the car would include a kettle, a dish, a blanket, a chair, a bucket and an axe.
• 17. How do you know they aren't axe murderers?
• 18. They use an axe and disfigure the rhino's face.
• 19. The day Dad attacked Mum with an axe.
• 20. The company announced Thursday their plan to axe 180 employees.
• 21. The executioner put down his axe and stood quietly.
• 22. The heavy axe was awkward to use.
• 23. They used axes to clear a path through the forest.
• 24. A bloodstained axe was found at the scene.
• 25. He had an axe brought, and they cut down the tree, but found no one upon it.
• 26. He maintained that he was protecting himself from Mr Cox, who came at him with an axe.
• 27. St Bartholomew's is one of four London hospitals facing the axe.
• 28. Bob had an axe to grind at tom's expense.
• 29. An axe is a tool used cutting wood.
• 30. Axe the tax on taxis.
• 31. It will be his job to decide where the budgetary axe will fall.
• 32. Other less profitable services are to be axed later this year.
• 33. The company is losing money so a quarter of our staff has to be axed.
• 34. Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.
• 35. Many TV shows have been axed because of poor ratings.
• 36. She cleaved his skull (in two) with an axe.
• 37. When I opened my eyes I saw a man with an axe standing at the end of my bed.
• 38. Then the woodcutter let his axe fly — Thwack! Everyone heard it.
• 39. Jones has been axed from the team.
• 40. Jack swung the axe and with one blow split open the door.
• 41. I got the axe.
• 42. He maintained that he was protecting himself from Mr. Cox, who came at him with an axe.
• 43. The man hacked a shrub down with an axe.
• 44. London Underground said it may have to axe 500 signalling jobs because of government cutbacks in its investment.
• 45. There axe many kinds of Thanksgiving Days in the world.
• 46. The youth drew out the axe and let him go.
• 47. This stone axe is a relic of ancient times.
• 48. He seems like a decent bloke and I've got no axe to grind with him.
• 49. Patients are delighted their local hospital has been saved from the axe.
• 50. She had no axe to grind and was only acting out of concern for their safety.
• 51. He looks like he's got an axe to grind. Better have a talk with him.
• 52. John got the axe when he arrived late for work three days in succession.