pickaxe

How To Use pickaxe In A Sentence

• When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton
• Cranes and bulldozers were brought in to clear the streets while 18 teams of rescue workers dug with pickaxes and shovels.
• It was the sound of someone using a pickaxe to dig, deep underground! THREE IN ONE
• The order stipulates that this includes carrying a pickaxe handle.
• There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
• Himmler had had it dredged by several more feet for reasons unclear to the slave laborers who had pickaxed their way through the solid rock on which the tower rested. HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
• He carries a pickaxe in his left hand and holds a lighted torch aloft in his right.
• Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
• In thinner coal seams miners would have to hack out coal with a pickaxe while lying on their sides.
• Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe.