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42 examples of Hammers in a sentence

They think, "OK, if we think words are the tools that we use to build the expressions of our thoughts, how can you say that screwdrivers are better than hammers?
In a roomful of maths Ph.Ds, I'm as dumb as a box of hammers.
That we see there's a general hammer, and hammers become more and more specific over time.
Several years back, there was a rash of 10 mass school attacks in China carried out with things like knives and hammers and cleavers, because guns are really hard to get there.
Tinkering School is a place where kids can pick up sticks and hammers and other dangerous objects, and be trusted.
It's not just hammers and gadgets, like laptops.
The Civil War battles are brief and are shown as several vignettes in which Custer, seemingly supported by just a handful of troopers, hammers the Confederate army into submission.
Susan Sarandon's character hammers at all the nerves which a narcissistic parent is capable of touching in an insecure adolescent.
If there was any hesitation that white people can't dance this scene hammers the final nail in that coffin.
The teachers are dumber than a sack of hammers.
Angie Harmon is as funny as a bag of hammers.
Then Yune pitches all of that out the window by displaying the martial arts skills of a bag of hammers.
This film has a very cosy atmosphere very traditional of hammers work around the late sixties early seventies.
Movies like Brokeback Mountain harp on the homosexual factor, making it a political issue that hammers the viewer over the head.
The subsidies are too small and too complicated to inspire capital outlays for expensive specialized equipment, including jack-up barges, heavy-lift cranes, pneumatic hammers for pounding the foundations into the sea bed, and high-strength gearboxes that will not corrode in humid, salty air.
The Berlin Wall did not collapse under a barrage of NATO artillery, but under the impact of hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had changed their minds about Soviet ideology.
When the Berlin Wall collapsed, it was not destroyed by an artillery barrage, but by hammers and bulldozers wielded by those who had lost faith in communism.
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, hammers and bulldozers, not artillery, brought it down.
This was mostly true in Hong Kong as well, until a small number of young protesters lost their cool and ransacked the Legislative Council chamber with crowbars and hammers.
Men went down with hammers, even the women armed themselves with iron bars; and they talked of smashing boilers, of breaking engines, and of demolishing the mine.
He also was worn out, but he was not sleepy; painful nightmare thoughts were beating like hammers in his skull.
A score of weighty hammers, falling with a clang which makes the pavement tremble, are raised aloft by a wheel which the water of the torrent sets in motion.
Each of these hammers turns out, daily, I cannot say how many thousands of nails.
A bevy of fresh, pretty girls subject to the blows of these enormous hammers, the little scraps of iron which are rapidly transformed into nails.
The door to the workshop was open, three workers stood in a circle around some piece of work that they were beating with hammers.
They went it might be a hundred paces farther, when on turning a corner the true cause, beyond the possibility of any mistake, of that dread-sounding and to them awe-inspiring noise that had kept them all the night in such fear and perplexity, appeared plain and obvious; and it was (if, reader, thou art not disgusted and disappointed) six fulling hammers which by their alternate strokes made all the din.
"Look here, my lively gentleman, if these, instead of being fulling hammers, had been some perilous adventure, have I not, think you, shown the courage required for the attempt and achievement?
But turn me these six hammers into six giants, and bring them to beard me, one by one or all together, and if I do not knock them head over heels, then make what mockery you like of me.""No more of that, senor," returned Sancho; "I own I went a little too far with the joke.
"That is true," said Sancho, "since the mere noise of the hammers of a fulling mill can disturb and disquiet the heart of such a valiant errant adventurer as your worship; but you may be sure I will not open my lips henceforward to make light of anything of your worship's, but only to honour you as my master and natural lord."
Pincers and hammers, mallets and chisels would not get it out of my grip; no, nor lions' claws; the soul from out of my body first!""She is right," said the man; "I own myself beaten and powerless; I confess I haven't the strength to take it from her;" and he let go his hold of her.