Sentence examples for hammer someone from inspiring English sources

He wore a red-and-white-striped tie and had a question: "Who in this room has gotten rid of a phone, then smashed the hell out of it with a hammer?" Someone raised his hand.

"A hammer, as someone said the other day, is only a phone call away".

"I'm not going to hold a hammer over someone's head before I meet him," outfielder Rusty Greer said.

Readers' interest in local news reaches only a short way from their doorstep, he says, and a local DIY store has no business advertising a hammer to someone on the other side of London.

And you can use a hammer to bash someone over the head or you could use it to construct something beautiful.

The vice president repeatedly hammered Mr. Bush as someone who would squander the surplus on "a huge tax cut for the wealthy".

(Although you can with me; I still bash away with the force and clatter of someone hammering down a levered metal key, which is why my laptops disintegrate after about three years, and why I used to get told off in the British Library for typing too loudly. The other readers should have counted themselves lucky I didn't go "ding!" every time I reached the end of a line).

In all likelihood, such an unusual situation as someone hammering on both ends of a heated bar would not have been in play when the professor said what he did.

Then get someone to hammer your back with a big mallet, so you have a thumping pain that doesn't go away.

"We need a couple of extra days to hammer out some details," someone close to the negotiations said.

"Sometimes the truth is just too brutal; it can be like a blunt hammer that you hit someone over the head with.