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.