Sentence examples for using a sledgehammer from inspiring English sources

"Instead, they are using a sledgehammer".

It's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".

"They are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Yesterday, Moore said Lacoste's legal action was "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".

No using a sledgehammer to BASH in the LOCKED door of the SECRET CLOSET.

"I think we both agreed this was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".

Mr. Breuer is certainly right when he points out that criminal charges are not a very useful means of regulating corporations, so that prosecutors "sometimes had to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

"Do you want to use a sledgehammer?

"Don't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Why use a sledgehammer when a feather will do?

How's this for a practical principle: don't use a sledgehammer to swat a gnat.