axes
Example Sentences
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The towering ambition of the men remaking the landscape with saws and axes, and the men, like Grainier, who were somehow pulled through that current.
From Los Angeles Times
Climbers venturing along the Devil's Backbone trail are advised to carry crampons and ice axes.
From BBC
That advice included “find a private cadre of advisers who have no axes to grind” and “call your mom.”
He remembers using ice axes to climb in the winter when he was only 15.
But there wasn’t much benefit in tracking sales of shovels, pick axes, and sifting pans in order to validate the bull case for the California Gold Rush.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
