Sentence examples for like a sledge from inspiring English sources

In this context, an uncontrolled bankruptcy of a major investment bank was sort of like a sledge hammer in the face: a rather rude and unexpected blow.

They stayed almost at the same spot for the whole feeding period, with their tusks resting like a sledge on the bottom.

"It's like using a sledge hammer to hit a small nail".

It was like watching the cavalry in the wild west, and there was me, being pulled along on a sledge like Father Christmas, just in awe of it all.

Even their shoes, high on a platform built like a snow sledge and festooned with colored pom poms, seemed more like costume than winter footwear.

The team's house looks to be the centre of the action with beer bongs, bong bongs and people riding each other downstairs like a human sledge into a tower of beers.

Alternatively, you can treat the planted maul like a splitting wedge and hit the blunt metal end of the maul with a sledge.

" 'A sledge, sir?' asked the porter.

Here's a sledge bearing the remains of a doll, fillets of plaster fish, cotton wool buds that splay from a toy foot like sparklers.

'Yes, a sledge.' " No! How can this be?!

David and Douglas Mawson on a sledge journey from Cape Royds.