Example Sentences

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But at the end of the day, "if you build a hammer... you can hurt yourself. So should we not build hammers any more"?

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 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

Yet there were many like us without hammers and using only stones, who were making very good progress.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya