anvil

Example Sentences

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The balls, which were delivered directly from the manufacturer to the officiating crew before each game, could be so stiff that kickers felt like they were driving their foot into an anvil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Every fourth or fifth joke has the air of having been hammered out on an anvil, and a few might have been better left in the smithery.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025

Les Capon, project manager with AOC Archaeology, said he believed part of the area could have been a blacksmith's workshop after discovering evidence of a forge and an anvil.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025

The model shows that changes in the area of anvil clouds have a much weaker impact on global warming than previously thought.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2024

An enormous anvil cloud is out over the Atlantic.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt