A loaf of bread which has been carried in a knapsack for a couple of days, bruised and handled and hackedat with a hunting-knife, becomes an uninteresting object.
Ten minutes later, and he was lying as Orleans had lain, hacked in pieces, while the Orleanists exulted over his body as he had done over that of their leader.
Samuel hackedor smashed up Agag, although Saul was the regularly appointed one.
The round dance of the present day is but a repetition of those lascivious plays, and with his ax or hatchet he hacked up that malicious property, shaped into a golden calf.
So he had only hacked that place in order to be doing something--in order to pass the weary time--in order to employ his tortured faculties.
On the following day not a vestige remained of the elephant, except the offal: the Arabs had not only cut off the flesh, but they had hacked the skull and the bones in pieces, and carried them off to boil down for soup.
Let thy arms be rent, and thy spurs be hacked from thy heels!
He had lost himself in the prairie-blizzard till his feet were frozen to mortification, and in his desperation he had taken a carving-knife and had hacked off his most corrupt foot and had thrown it out of doors.
I would rather,' said sweet-tempered Robert Blair, 'have had my right hand hacked off at the cross of Edinburgh than have written such things.
But in a little while they avoided their struggling horses, and leaping towards each other with their swords, they cut and hacked each the other so fiercely that great pieces of their shields and armour flew off.
Swiftly he hacked the fastenings of the helm and tore it from the neck armour.
The three daughters flew in their eagle shirts to the spring of the Water of Life and bathing in that magic pool they made grow on again the beak and the wing and the leg which the Youngest Brother had hacked off.
If only the youth who maimed us would return the beak and the wing and the leg that he hacked off, we would tell him anything he wants to know.
Trees of fifteen years or more had been mercilessly hacked for the small amount of turpentine that such trunks would produce, and the bark had been ripped off for tanning.
The beams show no signs of the saw or axe; on the contrary, they appear to have been hacked off by means of some very imperfect instrument.
The ends of these lintels were hacked off by stone implements of some kind.
The arcading which goes round the lower part of the aisle walls was continued round the east sides and the ends of this transept, but it has all been hacked away, and the walls now are flat.
Even my warden comes before me in his ordinary attire, but that is fairly excusable when it consists of corslet and head-piece hacked and dinted in my service.
Camp-kettles hackedin two were met with, and boxes of sutlers' wares smashed to fragments.
But to finish the work he used the hatchet, and hacked vigorously at the woodwork till it was mutilated and its usefulness and beauty spoiled.
The first time she ever saw this man that she is now seeing for the last time on this side the river, his own mother would not have known him, he was so hacked to pieces with the swords of his three assailants.
He would have been hacked a hundred times worse than he was before the widow of Christian, and the mother of his children, would have seen anything but the manliest beauty in a young soldier who could salute an old woman in that way.
They hackedand cut at him, but the end of it was that he drove them right out of the passage, while I followed, firing past him.
Hold me by the hand, and my good horse shall drag thee through the melee--I would sooner that my arm were hacked off than that thou shouldst sleep in the accursed lake: enough of thy blood rests in it, with Don Gabriel.
Four hundred against 2000 rode the Lancers, and somehow or another were into the ravine and out again, and with lance and sword and revolver had pushed and hacked their way through the dense mass of the enemy.
These, it appears, were hacked and hewed into mere desolation by the next proprietor.
He hacked and hewed right and left; omitted, compressed, rearranged, and occasionally inserted additions of his own devising.
Bent upon vast beginnings, bidding anarchy cease-- (Had we hackedit to the Pit, we had left it a place of peace!
When he had finished his prayer, he drew the short sword, and hacked off the head of the Minotaur.
Bellerophon hacked off her head, and several feet of her tail, stowed them in his chariot, and drove back to the palace of the King of Lycia, while the people followed him with songs of praise.
He sat with his back comfortably against the tree bole, his shock of black hair falling almost to his shoulders in back and rudely hacked off above his eyes.
They sat side by side among the branches of a tree, gorging themselves on strips of raw fleshhacked from the side of Trakor's kill, while below them a pack of Jackals quarreled over the buck's remains.
See, they have hacked through your very face; the sweet face that every one loves who knows it.
He hacked down the board on which their names were written, and brought it in doors, and flung it into the chimney-place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hacked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
