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.