Thesaurus results for GAVEL

gavel

noun

as in hammer

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Recent Examples of gavel Thomson has the title and the gavel, but time will tell who’s driving the agenda — the mayor or Pearlman, founder of the development opposition group Save Boca, who ran with Grau and Sipple as a slate. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026 Banksy’s most recent headline-grabber popped up in September last year, depicting a judge attacking an unarmed protester with his gavel. —

Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026 The guitar was one of a number of high-profile items that went under the gavel on Thursday as part of a sale of items from late Indianapolis Colts owner and pop culture memorabilia super-collector Jim Irsay, who died last year. —

Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2026 Speaker Mike Johnson can afford to lose just one vote to keep hold of his gavel. —

Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gavel

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According to prosecutors, Joachin is accused of attacking the victim outside a gas station, striking her repeatedly in the head with a hammer and killing her.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026