Sentence examples for a hammer against from inspiring English sources

They just copy what we do, take out the smile and use it as a hammer against us.

A hammer against a nail, sharp and determined, goes on a beat too long, pounding and pounding throughout an entire evening, with metronomic precision.

Then she crouched down and began thwacking a hammer against one of the cables, while Cavatorta applied pickups to the wire casing just above.

The bats also strengthen with use, Moyer said, adding that one player smashed a hammer against the barrel to harden the wood.

Or a hammer against a nail.

While the government keeps harassing, threatening, prosecuting and imprisoning whistleblowers for public service, we're living in a society where corrosive repression continues to use fear as a hammer against truth-telling.

The song is a little lullaby, though for some reason there's a guy tapping a little hammer against a wood block in the background.

Some defense lawyers said the pleas revealed weaknesses in the Justice Department's efforts to use the material support law as a heavy hammer against a range of activities.

Nevertheless, it was, not least by Tony Blair, then the shadow home secretary, who called it a "hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the nation".

These new rules, he said, were "a hammer blow against those that would illegally evade taxes and hide their wealth in the dark corners of the financial system".

George Osborne, who last week promised the project would be a "hammer blow" against criminals who exploit corporate secrecy, said new recruits to the initiative showed "it's gaining the international support that will be vital to make it truly effective".