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hammers away

VERB

work hard at

Synonyms

WEAK

continue drive home drub into drudge drum into endeavor grind grind into impress upon instruct keep on peg away persevere persist plug away pound away repeat stick to try hard try repeatedly work

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

As Edgar, Sean Carvajal, celebrated for his performance in the Signature Theatre revival of “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train,” hammers away with the emotional insistence of a character in a Stephen Adly Guirgis play.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

This Verne novel addresses, indeed hammers away at, precisely those issues about the future of flight that obsessed Nadar.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

In his spare time our father hammers away at the interior of the house.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood