axe

Example Sentences

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The TV clip the Journal mentions features individuals with little understanding of our organization and an axe to grind.

From The Wall Street Journal

Over by a large fireplace was an axe with threads of bronze etched around the handle.

From Literature

Using a soup ladle attached to an ice axe, Swanson reached out, straining to touch the ground as the helicopter lowered nearer and nearer the summit.

From Literature

She threw the axe, overhand, as hard and straight as she could: not hard, not straight, but with an awesome fury.

From Literature

“Nicknames such as ‘Lizzie’ are reserved for barmaids and axe murderers, of which you are neither,” she once said.

From Literature