hammer into

phrasal verb

hammered into; hammering into; hammers into
: to force (something) to be learned very well by (someone) by repeating it again and again
They are constantly trying to hammer good manners into their children.
She hammered it into me that I could succeed.

Examples of hammer into in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Witnesses said the bounce house had been secured by stakes hammered into the ground, according to the station. Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024 The district gave the families the option to slam a hammer into the walls of the building before the demolition. Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024 This bit of climactic dialogue, hammered into plain yet insinuating and increasingly dangerous English by Herzog, is emblematic of this new production. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024 While traveling across Ukraine last summer with a nonprofit aid group, the sight of a small town in eastern Ukraine hammered into me the indiscriminate nature of Russia’s onslaught. TIME, 13 Feb. 2024 Weeks later, a group of Cubans brandished poles with nails hammered into them and tried to attack an approaching Coast Guard boat. Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023 One piece by Thomas Macie is still there today: pennies hammered into warehouse shelving units as a Donald Judd-style permanent installation at Ikea. Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023 The five suspects ran into Prestige Jewelers at about 12:40 p.m. last Saturday, slamming hammers into display cases to steal the jewelry, police said. Emma Colton, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2023 For generations of New York runners, this paved stretch has been the city’s premier training and racing destination; countless quads have been hammered into shape on the anvil of its undulations. Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2021

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“Hammer into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hammer%20into. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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