hatchet

Example Sentences

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“His role is to do a hatchet job,” Mr. McGovern said.

From Washington Times

Our reviewer Douglas Brinkley praised this “thrilling” history, noting that “with granular detail, Graff writes about the white-collar criminals, hatchet men and rogues who populated the outer circles of Nixon’s covert operations.”

From New York Times

The pop band, who were among the biggest stars of the 1980s, buried the hatchet to play for 20,000 people at a concert to mark the Eurovision Song Contest in their home city, Liverpool.

From BBC

One of Chin On’s heavies carried a hatchet and, in Sweeney Todd fashion, was “never hesitant to turn an enemy of the family into human pork.”

From New York Times

The guests are a bundle of nerves when they arrive, still reeling from Logan’s death and their subsequent hurried, haphazard burying of various hatchets.

From New York Times