hammers away
Example Sentences
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It goes back to a story Homa shared on a “No Laying Up” podcast four years ago about a stonecutter who hammers away on a huge boulder and shatters it with the 101st strike.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Nietzsche’s 1878 book, “Human, All Too Human,” his inaugural assault on Wagner and Romantic metaphysics, hammers away at the word Mitleid, considering it an instrument of weakness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
John Nelson, the senior quarterback, hits tight end Jared Miller on a deep play-action pass, then a rotation of running backs hammers away at the Loggers’ defensive front.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2017
During the scene in which Wagner’s enslaved metalsmiths toil at their anvils — mere stage props — a team of percussionists, concealed offstage, hammers away on the tubing.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2015
In his spare time our father hammers away at the interior of the house.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
