How to Use sledge in a Sentence

sledge

noun

• All these big burly guys were sort of tapping with their sledge hammers.
  — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• Aggies brought a hammer, Horns brought a sledge.
  — Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
• Wellman broke his leg on his second trip and was carried back to camp on a sledge.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 Jan. 2022
• This sledge is great for breaking apart concrete or hammering in stakes.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 3 Dec. 2022
• The front door was broken down with a heavy sledge, while another flank busted through the back.
  — John Semley, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025
• Blackpink’s songs both sneak up on you and clobber you with a sleek platinum sledge-hammer.
  — Bart Bull, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2022
• The first tools developed to cut metal were adapted from sledge hammers.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Nicole Scherzinger is sharing her Ohana spirit — and her sledge hammer skills.
  — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• General Tyler who was in the safe business came with a man – and with sledge and wedges knocked the doors from the safe and found the contents gone.
  — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Oct. 2020
• In fact, an ancient wall painting in the tomb of Djehutihotep shows a person pouring water over the sand in front of a sledge.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2014
• Around the same time, Schipper had texted their daughter Grace to wrap the handle of a sledge hammer in black electrical tape.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
• Stewart used a sledge hammer to break windows and glass doors to gain entry into certain homes, and caused further damage to the homes once inside.
  — Fox News, 22 Nov. 2021
• The suspects used sledge hammers to break display cases and brandished firearms to threaten and control the staff and customers, police said.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
• The 23-year-old man who was hosting the party was also found using a sledge hammer to demolish a car in the driveway.
  — cleveland, 20 May 2021
• Rather than skates, players use double blade sledges that allow the puck to slide underneath and have two sticks, which have a spike-end for propulsion and a blade-end for handling the puck.
  — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
• This 3-pound sledgehammer is a great size for both small and large demolition tasks, and provides a bit more control and precision than a full-sized sledge.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
• They have been selected, in both body form and behavior, to retrieve dead ducks, herd sheep, drag badgers from their holes, haul sledges and even deliver brandy to avalanche victims.
  — Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Make your way down the slopes via velogemel, a snowbike that was invented and patented in the Jungfrau village of Grindelwald, or a sledge.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
• Make your way down the slopes via velogemel, a snowbike that was invented and patented in the Jungfrau village of Grindelwald, or a sledge.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
• The following spring, two other expedition members found Brønlund's body, with the diary safely stored in the sledge at his feet.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2020
• DeDolph said the plan included breaking down Melgar's door with a sledge hammer for effect, binding him with duct tape and performing the chokehold.
  — CBS News, 15 Jan. 2021
• There are various types, including ball-peen, sledge and mallet, but the 16-ounce claw hammer, which has a head that is split and curved on one side, should handle most jobs and isn’t too heavy to wield.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• While some of the celebs surprised the hosts with their ability to swing a sledge hammer (Lisa Kudrow), others caught the twins off guard with their vulnerability.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• As soon as the Brulé glimpsed Harney’s troops the women began to strike tepees, loading lodge poles, skins and other belongings onto travois, sledges drawn by horses and dogs.
  — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• The winter before Poncet was born, his parents spent weeks camping and exploring frozen Marguerite Bay, hauling gear by sledge across its solid surface.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• According to the team, this sensorless approach makes safe operation of the electromagnetic sledge possible.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
• Kuhn said that Madera-Rodriguez's task was limited to breaking down Melgar's door with a sledge hammer, putting on some music and bringing in two Malian guards who were part of the joke.
  — Ben Finley, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
• Brønlund’s three-man sledge team ran into trouble while attempting to return to the Denmark Expedition’s base camp in Danmarkshavn.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2020
• Those numbers would usually suggest a demolition-down-to-the-studs rebuild, but the task of replacing Jim Mora didn’t require sledge hammers or dynamite.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
• There, just under 200 athletes from 16 countries competed in Alpine and cross-country skiing, with ice sledge racing also featured as a demonstration event.
  — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026