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hammer - use in sentences
Object
- dulcimer: My mom plays classical piano and conga drums and hammer dulcimer and autoharp.
- nail: Partly this may be a matter of teaching useful skills - how to hold a fork or hammer a nail.
- coin: Considering this we now had a chance of finding a hammered coin or early artifact.
Preposition: on
- anvil: Fx: Hammer on anvil Bloodnok: You filthy swine!
Adjective modifier
- pneumatic: The main source of dust was from pneumatic hammers and at the time there was no known way of protecting against this.
- geological: Indiana Gary ( of Tilley hat fame ) also returned with his pockets full of the products of the swinging of his geological hammer.
Converse of object
- wield: And yet, to wield a hammer to a war-plane carries a sentence of ten years in an Irish prison.
Modifies a noun
- sorter: We played with the happy street, the hammer shape sorter for a bit, some chase.
- toe: A " hammer toe " may occur at the 2nd toe.
- blow: A year later, the ailing town was dealt another hammer blow with the outbreak of an epidemic of plague.
- drill: A pair of Black & Decker hammer drills were used to drill holes for 8mm stud anchors.
- beam: The original hammer beam ceiling dating from 1908 will be revealed.
Preposition: in
- nail: He's shown me how to saw wood and how to hammer in the nails properly.
Noun used with modifier
- sledge: A light tap with a 7lb sledge hammer remedied the fault!
- claw: A claw hammer is probably the best for general DIY.
- lump: Thankfully it was thin enough to yield to the lump hammer.
- steam: It was at this point the Atlantic breaker hit the surf board with the force of a steam hammer.
- jack: It would probably be worth hiring a jack hammer for the job.
- tilt: He may have seen this water driven tilt hammer used for crushing metal ore in Yorkshire.
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