sledgehammer

How To Use sledgehammer In A Sentence

• As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym. CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
• The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
• Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
• This summer, I realized I was the servant and it the master and resolved this inversion of the natural order in Kirkian fashion, by taking a sledgehammer to it.
• It would have taken a sledgehammer to keep me off the pitch. The Sun
• Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow?
• Wiley kittens can almost always outlast Navy Seals with sledgehammers. Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Industrial Complex
• And the sign-off at the end of his first letter is a laugh-line with a sledgehammer punch.
• The scenes are acted with sledgehammer humour, unworthy of Williamson's usually sleek style.
• Not too much imagery as such, just a hint of rawness with use of dumb-bells and sledgehammer to break the monotonous nature of gun-shot violence.