Examples of sledgehammer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Sullivan called for help, grabbed his sledgehammer and broke down the back door, Fox 35 reported. — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2022 Armed with a sledgehammer, two Florida men rescued their neighbor from a home fire Monday morning in Ocala. — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2022 With a sledgehammer, Wong simultaneously screams and hit the wall of a shower. — Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 4 May 2022 His flashbacks to the church’s early days provide context in a manner more akin to tapping with a mallet than pounding with a sledgehammer — with some notable exceptions. — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022 Cover the tub with a bedspread or other thick cloth, put on safety goggles and protective clothing to shield yourself against flying shards, and go at it with a sledgehammer. — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022 And an integral part of this sledgehammer of a film — the 49-track musical score that moves along with a subject matter that transcends both oceans and conceived dimensional planes — was largely created in Broad Ripple. — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2022 Firefighters had to use a sledgehammer to free a man who apparently fell behind a wall by along a track at the MBTA commuter rail station in Back Bay Saturday morning, Boston fire said. — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022 Tactical gear and other law enforcement equipment was found, including clothing with police signage, police parking signs, a fingerprint kit, and equipment for knocking down a door such as a sledgehammer and lock picking kit. — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The move means the 7-foot Kiwi will be under contract for the next three seasons and signals that at a time when the game is becoming increasingly perimeter-oriented, the Pelicans will try to sledgehammer their way to wins. — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020 While Beijing’s sledgehammer approach — seen by many as an extreme experiment unprecedented in size and scope — worked to quickly lower the number of infections, the price in human trauma and economic loss was severe. — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020 The suit stemmed from a May 10, 2019, incident in which police sledgehammered the front gate of his Outer Richmond home, held him in handcuffs for hours and seized his phone, computers and other equipment. — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 31 Mar. 2020 Perhaps the most brazen took place in 1958, when two men sledgehammered the Fifth Avenue display windows in the middle of the night. — James Barron, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020 Should have done steel ball on window, *then* sledgehammer the door. — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2019 This aluminum-block five is a beast, spinning out a lag-free 400 horsepower and sledgehammering 354 pound-feet of torque from 1700 rpm all the way to 5850 rpm. — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2018 Also, remember that sidewalks aren’t that difficult or expensive to sledgehammer out and rebuild a few feet away. — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018 Historians have been trying to sledgehammer people into remembering these events. — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective And Sundwall said that, in retrospect, state health officials took a sledgehammer approach to mitigating the pandemic, such as school closings in 2020, when the state could have taken a more surgical tack. — Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021 The Academy Award winner quickly turned into a sledgehammer pro, getting involved in breaking through walls and ripping out fixtures. — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021 There’s no in between when the world’s best heavyweights start throwing sledgehammer punches. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021 Beside the sledgehammer threat of the PPP tax issue, several other emergency programs for small businesses are scheduled to expire at year-end unless Congress extends them. — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2020 See More

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