Thesaurus results for GAVEL

gavel

noun

as in hammer

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Recent Examples of gavel The House's narrow Republican majority has repeatedly stalled out under Johnson's gavel, with his own party tangled in internal disputes on a range of pending issues, including the Homeland Security funding. —

ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026 That outcome would still leave Democrats favored to win the House and force House Speaker Mike Johnson to surrender the gavel to Jeffries. —

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026 Through a mix of orders, shaming, and a whole lot of banging of the gavel, the octogenarian managed to avoid a nightmare scenario of one of his colleagues pummeling a witness. —

Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026 The final gavel will come down for the highest bidders on March 27. —

Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gavel

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Noun

Alas, Shao Khan smashes Cole’s head with a hammer, Gallagher style, and shoves his body into a vat of acid.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 12 May 2026
The victim said that a man, identified in documents as 43-year-old Lance Tolbert, had emerged from one of the stalls and began attacking him with a hammer.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 10 May 2026