hammered in to
Example Sentences
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She climbed to the window ledge, felt for the nails that Abel had hammered in to hold his feet and soon ascended through a large gap under the eaves of the store.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
The half-heard name of the ship that was to carry Yann away became suddenly fixed in her brain, as if it had been hammered in to remain more ineffaceably there.
From An Iceland Fisherman by M. Jules Cambon
