Example Sentences

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Friday’s broadcast ended with a literal bang, with Colbert, Daniels and White taking hammers to the talk show set and setting it ablaze.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

The other reason was we were hammers and so we saw everything as a nail.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Among the works is a giant dinosaur fossil made from hammers, knives and spanners, a snake made from an old bicycle chain and a bull's nostrils formed from a vintage gas mask.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

“Deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Prose becomes stuffy when an insecure writer hammers the reader over the head with redundant indicators of a connection, as if unsure that one would be enough.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker