Examples of clawhammer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun In the woman’s possession, police found a claw hammer allegedly used to remove security devices from merchandise. — cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022 Police said Cusseaux opened her front door with a claw hammer raised as officers were opening the security door to her unit. — AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2021 Prosecutors said Johnson used a claw hammer to fatally bludgeon a manager, Mary Bratcher, 46, and employees Mabel Scruggs, 57, and Fred Jones, 58, during a closing-time robbery at the Casey’s General Store in Columbia on Feb. 12, 1994. — NBC News, 7 May 2021 The victims were shot and attacked with a claw hammer. — NBC News, 5 Oct. 2021 Clearly, Marcie and Gibbs were on the right track; the woman pulled from the lake matches the killer's MO: bludgeoned with a claw hammer and bound with red duct tape. — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021 In state court, Purkey was convicted for the death of another woman — 80-year-old Mary Ruth Bales, who was bludgeoned to death with a claw hammer the same year as Long’s murder. — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2020 Two of the four women were posed nude after their deaths, one was raped with a claw hammer and all were repeatedly strangled and resuscitated to prolong their agony, prosecutors said. — Donald Thompson, ajc, 24 July 2021 Two of the four women were posed nude after their deaths, one was raped with a claw hammer and all were repeatedly strangled and resuscitated to prolong their agony, prosecutors said. — al, 24 July 2021 See More

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