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Example sentences for "sledgehammer"

Lexicographically close words:
sleazy; sled; sledding; sledge; sledged; sledges; sledging; sleds; slee; sleek
  1. Once more before I could guard he landed on me with that terrible right-arm swing, and down I went as if a sledgehammer had struck me.

  2. Not one of his sledgehammer smashes reached their mark, and the round closed without a blow having landed.

  3. Finally, the sledgehammer hesitated, belched, and, with a satisfied sneer, scratched his crotch.

  4. A hard-muscled sledgehammer of a man barged into the Charnel Pit, sullen anger knotting his beefy face.

  5. Every time the boat pitches, the floor heaves you forward, the fire spurts at you out of the doors and the gong keeps on like a sledgehammer coming down on top of your mind.

  6. Then Sledgehammer Hume would put some death-on-rats in Hell Fire's hay, or pick Red off with a shot gun, and who cops onto the five thou?

  7. Roosevelt walked deliberately towards him, and before the bully suspected it, the "tenderfoot" felled him with a sledgehammer blow.

  8. Bascomb was not finding it a very easy thing to give Rains many points, although he believed he could knock the fellow down any time he wished to do so by simply letting drive one of his sledgehammer blows.

  9. He means to use his sledgehammer blow on you.

  10. It not only widened our hold on the ridge, but also by a series of unrelenting sledgehammer blows had a cumulative effect on the German morale and thus paved the way for the greater successes of September.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sledgehammer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bang; baste; batter; beat; buffet; drub; flail; flap; forcible; hammer; knock; larrup; mallet; maul; paste; patter; pelt; pommel; pound; pulverize; pummel; rap; sledgehammer; spank; thrash; thresh; thump; violent; wallop; whip