Example Sentences

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Soto, a feaster on fastballs, a hammerer of homers, crushed the four-seamer into the right-field seats to give the Nationals the lead again.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019

The names of hammerer, upholsterer and painter are engraved on the doorjambs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The suspected hammerer himself was wandering among the primroses in the garden.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

He will fight by his champion, and turn me over to my fellow craftsman the hammerer, when all I can reap will be the pleasure of knocking a Highland bullock on the head.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

I cannot understand whether he attacks me as a wriggler or a hammerer, but I am very sure that a deal of wriggling has to be done.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir