How To Use Sledgehammer In A Sentence
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As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym.
CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
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The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
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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
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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.
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It would have taken a sledgehammer to keep me off the pitch.
The Sun
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Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow?
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Wiley kittens can almost always outlast Navy Seals with sledgehammers.
Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Industrial Complex
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And the sign-off at the end of his first letter is a laugh-line with a sledgehammer punch.
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The scenes are acted with sledgehammer humour, unworthy of Williamson's usually sleek style.
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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.
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We must respect established treaties, agreements and processes without crushing the fragile flower of democracy with a sledgehammer.
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I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lira.
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The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
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But in praising the aspiration to work the extra hour, he took a sledgehammer to those earning the extra pound that takes them into the 40% tax bracket.
The Conservatives and Welfare
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The stakes are sledgehammered into the ground about 10 to 12 inches and two 3-inch sheetrock screws are used to secure each stake.
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The whole set-up, the diabetes, and the sledgehammer violence were all played in a way that's atypical of what I expect in a mainstream film, feeling much more like a fringe flick in the greasy intensity of it all.
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The force of each bite was like a sledgehammer with teeth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never go for the subtle quip when the goofy sledgehammer punchline will do.
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Of the ten times Frazier's been down, eight are by the sledgehammer fist of Big George.
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The 47-year-old teacher and her five kids were snoozing when eight armed crooks used sledgehammers to break through her wall, unnecessarily because she would have let them in the door.
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Graham attempted to jump Toby, but he was prepared and rammed the mallet of the sledgehammer into Graham's stomach.
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In the other picture, five black men in undershirts and overalls are driving a massive iron support into the ground with heavy sledgehammers.
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Barnes could easily have made this novel into a sledgehammer indictment of racism, but what he does is far more subtle.
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He gets trapped on the ropes and then takes a sledgehammer left.
The Sun
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Sheriff's officials have testified they used a sledgehammer to break into Mr Miller's office in Beverly Hills and seized videotapes and files related to the case.
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Yet a whole lot of people arm themselves with sledgehammer tackle when they are gunning for modest-size fish.
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Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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It was a small and peaceful demonstration so I don't know why there was such a big police presence. It was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Leonard would fight on his toes and thus avoiding Hagler sledgehammer shots.
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The band is amped, and even the ballads quake with fat bass lines, piano chords issued with sledgehammer bravado and the vocals hustled to the front of the mix.
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No one tunes a piano with a hammer, but I sometimes see racers take a sledgehammer approach to tuning engines.
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Singing volunteers, and construction workers who said they receive about US $1 a day, now sledgehammer rocks and repair roofs at various monasteries and other old buildings.
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And in August, 2000, two robbers carrying a sledgehammer, a baseball bat and a knife struck while a customer was inside.
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Mijangos used a sledgehammer to break down the door.
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After all, politicians don't usually perform comedy acts where they smash produce with sledgehammers.
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But for all its qualities, it wields a satirical sledgehammer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our current citizenship laws are problematical but why go the sledgehammer route which will just whip up racism?
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Employing an experienced chef to make sandwiches is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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There is a growing sense that sensible and necessary regulation has been replaced by an expensive and ineffective regulatory sledgehammer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The republicans, meanwhile, would prefer to use a sledgehammer where a flyswatter is appropriate.
Senators call for regime change in Iran, but differ on how
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The shuttle began rocking, like someone was pounding at it with a sledgehammer.
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The force of each bite was like a sledgehammer with teeth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Giving a whole new meaning to the term fanatic, this deranged devotee and No 1 fan of a romance-novel writer (James Caan), holds him against his will, forces a rewrite of the protagonist's fate and then sledgehammers his legs so he can't escape from her.
TODAYonline
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SOMETIMES the only way to crack a nut is with a sledgehammer.
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Jobs have been lost all over the US - but Ohio has been hit by a series of sledgehammer blows.
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It would have taken a sledgehammer to keep me off the pitch.
The Sun
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But for all its qualities, it wields a satirical sledgehammer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Selby firefighter Paul Bennett said they used a sledgehammer to break down the garage door and reach the fire, which had broken out in a utility room.
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It is beyond sad, or depressing - it is a vicious slap across the mouth, a painful screaming, a well-placed sledgehammer blow to the abdomen.
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They had a minimum of significant characters (often zero) and one big sledgehammer theme.
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I recently learned that Billy has been putting on a one-man science show, which includes laying down on a bed of nails and having someone break a cinderblock on his chest with a sledgehammer.
The Port Discover Science Center
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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.
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Plus a guy gets his shoulder broken with a sledgehammer.
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Use a sledgehammer style of attack and you're definitely going to have a hard time with the ‘avoid enemy detection’ objective.
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Yet Robbins's mix of pile-driver satire and sledgehammer sentiment crushes this enthusiasm by making one thing appallingly clear: just because you are on the side of the angels, it doesn't mean you are any good.
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The cash transit drivers were followed inside and attacked by two raiders with a sledgehammer and a crowbar on Friday.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, the bombastic score signposts plot points with sledgehammer subtlety.
Times, Sunday Times
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This simple action allowed us to measure the time it took for the wave produced by the sledgehammer to reach the geophone or to pass between geophones.
The Elephant's Secret Sense
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Though the famous corkscrew left crashed to its mark on Darcy's chin with all its old-time power, the psychological effect of its impotency was almost as unnerving as were Darcy's own sledgehammer blows.
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They had sledgehammered the door and it caved in.
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Live it would often bring the set to an orgasmic Rock ‘n’ Roll climax, which it does here on the album with all the guitars and drums in the band driving the rhythms into your head with sledgehammer force.
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A number of aspects can signify physical violence, but nothing matches the capability of this combination for sledgehammer brutality.
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In January it emerged that the plan - codenamed "sledgehammer" - had been hatched at the highest levels of the military to plant bombs to destabilise the government.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Part of what makes this book so entertaining is the laughable impossibility of its nonmetaphorical goal: The author seems to have written this book with the hope that everyone in America would read it, agree with all its points, and literally destroy their television sets with sledgehammers.
Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
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Hence, I spent a good morning on Sunday sledgehammering the concrete fenceposts out of the front garden.
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In Florence, Italy, a sledgehammer was the likely cause of destruction for a speed camera on the Florence-Pisa-Leghorn expressway.
TheNewspaper
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That he takes a sledgehammer to the bathrooms that he's fitted, but not been paid for.
Times, Sunday Times
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So they paid builders 300 to take a sledgehammer to two partition walls.
The Sun
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Of all the guys who have switched uniforms this season, maybe the hardest to get used to will be Lynch, who personified the Bucs' defense with his sledgehammer style.
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Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Bill hefted it off the shelf with a numb hand and with the other, took the sledgehammer that hung on the pegboard on the wall, its head suspended by two nails.
Curb Appeal
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She was hit with a sledgehammer.
The Sun
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Throughout his career, he wrote with clarity and an attention to detail, all the while showing the written word could be more effective as a pen knife than a sledgehammer.
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He gets trapped on the ropes and then takes a sledgehammer left.
The Sun
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a two-handed sledgehammer
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We succeeded in moving some rocks, breaking up several large ones with sledgehammers before we broke the handles on Dave and Stan's largest hammers.
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To get to the watches, the thieves had to break half-inch thick glass with a sledgehammer or other heavy implement.
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In an unconnected incident, police in Doncaster are hunting masked men wielding a sledgehammer who terrified staff and customers at Hatfield Post Office before escaping with cash.
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Critics raved about the power and sledgehammer punch of the book.
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Printing visiting cards on a thirty - inch press is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Symbolism is present but it doesn't suffer from the sledgehammer subtlety disease with which Hollywood is stricken, rather it serves more as icing on the cake.
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The quarrymen realised that they could split the rock into moveable lumps by driving iron wedges into natural fracture lines with sledgehammers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, imagine Crash's sledgehammer racist miserablism stretched out for hour after hour after hour after hour, possibly for years.
SLACKERJACK – Nanaca Crash!!
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Critics raved about the power and sledgehammer punch of the book.
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Employing an experienced chef to make sandwiches is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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So they paid builders 300 to take a sledgehammer to two partition walls.
The Sun
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We must respect established treaties, agreements and processes without crushing the fragile flower of democracy with a sledgehammer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, the bombastic score signposts plot points with sledgehammer subtlety.
Times, Sunday Times
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Excuse the sledgehammer entry here but I have just listened to the recording of Oppenheimer describing the effect of the first atomic bomb test on those that witnessed it.
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Meanwhile, with sledgehammer subtlety, heavily symbolic builders are taking apart the offices of the law firm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alternatively should I talk about Asin, the Latin root of the English word "asinine" whose hyper-animated innocent girl routine was so grating that I was cheering on Ghajini and his sledgehammer to put me out my misery?
Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
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COOPER (voice-over): As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym.
CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2009
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But as an athlete, you can get in some habits, and sometimes it takes a sledgehammer to break them.
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His argument isn't funny, though - it's a sledgehammer use of manipulative language to bluff Australians into believing they can't decide against war.
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The high leather boots and the hand that still gripped the handle of the sledgehammer were the only remains of the man.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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Many believe that the Executive have, nonetheless, created an almighty sledgehammer to crack a few bad eggs.
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They used to use a sledgehammer for beeves and pigs, but you'd have to swing hard and not miss!
Georgia Man In Boxers Kills Buck With A Stick
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This is the problem when you use a sledgehammer to crack a few specific walnuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, with sledgehammer subtlety, heavily symbolic builders are taking apart the offices of the law firm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ah, the sledgehammer irony of the truly depraved wingnut amoralist.
Me and Bella.
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They had me swinging a sledgehammer, knocking down plaster in these old houses in Charlestown.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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That he takes a sledgehammer to the bathrooms that he's fitted, but not been paid for.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marciano was a raw talent with sledgehammer punches.
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This is the problem when you use a sledgehammer to crack a few specific walnuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some got out of the van armed with spray-paint cans while others came out carrying metal bats, chainsaws, hatchets and sledgehammers.
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I don't want to take a sledgehammer to them.
Christianity Today
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But if you get a dramatically sudden headache like you've been hit with a sledgehammer, call an ambulance.
The Sun
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She hit the nail with a sledgehammer.
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Then, Orton, in a fit of evil rage, ran under the ring and grabbed a sledgehammer, which is usually Triple H's weapon of choice.
The Rebel Yell
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It was a small and peaceful demonstration so I don't know why there was such a big police presence. It was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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ram the gate with a sledgehammer
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They accused the Prime Minister of using sledgehammer tactics.
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For my own shows, however, I always strove for both listenability and lack of pretension; I'll own up to the call-to-prayer/'muted sledgehammers' stuff, but any other cacaphony was mandated by current station rotation.
We're all one, and life flows on
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We met in a blur of sledgehammer punches and bone crunching blocks.
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Expected to end quickly, the heavyweight clash had the crowd on the edge of their feet as the two giants hammered each other with vicious sledgehammers for 10 rounds.
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A sledgehammer leans against the wall behind him; Gillespie's ominous drawing of the incestuous mother and son hangs on the opposite wall.
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'Hero granny' explains why she took on jewel thieves with her handbag A BRITISH grandmother who "clobbered" a gang of sledgehammer-wielding jewel thieves with her handbag credited her "mother's instinct" for spurring her into action, media reported Wednesday.
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The analogy that I like to use is that it is like taking a sledgehammer to a large boulder and breaking it up so the pebbles can be washed away.
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Frank Gabriel stands about twenty feet away, holding a large hammer - a sledgehammer, in fact.
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This is a sledgehammer approach to hitting a pesky mosquito - don't get me wrong, the mosquito is carrying malaria, but this is not the way to fight it.
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She hit the nail with a sledgehammer.
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Such dumbing-down of aesthetic sensibility is a triumph for the corporate sledgehammer that has so bedazzled him.
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We must respect established treaties, agreements and processes without crushing the fragile flower of democracy with a sledgehammer.
Times, Sunday Times
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I assume he is doing this by using sledgehammer riffs and singing which is just sub par for Neaderthal communication.
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He said: 'It felt like being hit by a sledgehammer at full swing.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a small and peaceful demonstration so I don't know why there was such a big police presence. It was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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These works leave few expressive facets of the instrument unexplored, and they require a technique that can reproduce everything from a baby's caress to passages of sledgehammer ferocity.
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At 3.30 am they were wakened by the sound of sledgehammers smashing open the double-locked front door.
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In both the Filipino and Malayan cases, police and small military unit operations were the rule, not large sledgehammer operations.
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Printing visiting cards on a thirty - inch press is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Graham scattered towards the barrel as Toby discarded his sledgehammer for the crowbar.
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The movie pounds out the characters with a sledgehammer and a mallet, and that has to pass for development.
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Take a sledgehammer to the bathtub?
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For instance, many people learn in high school that alcohol is a depressant-a kind of chemical sledgehammer for the mind.
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Sometimes, the sledgehammer approach works.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thieves, says the proprietor, must have used a sledgehammer to break the toughened glass to gain access.
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Somewhere along the way, I learned that the sledgehammer approach wasn't going to work.
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Take a sledgehammer to the bathtub?
Times, Sunday Times
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This hideous pork product does nothing but evoke traumatic memories of the film's headache-inducing brand of sledgehammer slapstick.
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Meanwhile, the bombastic score signposts plot points with sledgehammer subtlety.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a sledgehammer approach is bad news because it sends out a bad message across the world.
The Sun
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Levida grabs a sledgehammer and starts hammering away at the old pigsties.
Take Me There
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Steel whined, then glanced from the shoulder of his scale mail with a sledgehammer impact, but his enemy had forgotten how tall his opponent was.
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So they paid builders 300 to take a sledgehammer to two partition walls.
The Sun
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No one tunes a piano with a hammer, but I sometimes see racers take a sledgehammer approach to tuning engines.
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The cash transit drivers were followed inside and attacked by two raiders with a sledgehammer and a crowbar on Friday.
The Sun
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For instance, many people learn in high school that alcohol is a depressant-a kind of chemical sledgehammer for the mind.
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So they paid builders 300 to take a sledgehammer to two partition walls.
The Sun
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Electric installations were smashed with sledgehammers and then switched on melting connexions in complete destruction.
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But if you get a dramatically sudden headache like you've been hit with a sledgehammer, call an ambulance.
The Sun
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How far all these people will go to achieve their goals is questioned over and over, making for an internal sense of suspense that enhances the propane attacks and sledgehammer fisticuffs.
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Printing visiting cards on a thirty - inch press is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Some got out of the van armed with spray-paint cans while others came out carrying metal bats, chainsaws, hatchets and sledgehammers.
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He said: 'It felt like being hit by a sledgehammer at full swing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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It was a small and peaceful demonstration so I don't know why there was such a big police presence. It was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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This is where Disch's sledgehammer approach seems particularly questionable to me, because I agree with many of his conclusions, but would want to add footnotes and amendments before signing on -- for instance, I admire Merril's Best SF anthologies more than any other such series, but I don't see anything particularly wrong with "intramural" anthologies, either, because done well they can be quite satisfying books.
On SF
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They then went to work with crowbars and a sledgehammer on the wood boarding up the windows.
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Playgoers, in general, tend to show resistance when the chosen theme of a piece conks you on the head like a sledgehammer.
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Unfortunately, this message is delivered with such a lack of finesse and tact that it feels like the proverbial sledgehammer is trying to pound the message into the audience.
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Emerson, whose obsessive, sledgehammer approach makes his reporting often seem an afterthought to his conclusion, possesses neither.
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Sometimes, the sledgehammer approach works.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was hit with a sledgehammer.
The Sun
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Printing business cards on a thirty - inch press is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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You could poleax these people with a sledgehammer to the noggin, morning, noon and night, and still nothing would get through.
How Much Longer Can the GOP Maintain Credibility When All They Say Is "No! No! No! No! No!"?
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I believe that this type of sledgehammer approach to address populist fears about terrorism is totally disgusting and bordering on totalitarian.
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An orange dump truck lumbers up the street followed by workers with picks and sledgehammers.
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The force of each bite was like a sledgehammer with teeth.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a growing sense that sensible and necessary regulation has been replaced by an expensive and ineffective regulatory sledgehammer.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't want to take a sledgehammer to them.
Christianity Today
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She picked up the sledgehammer and began banging away with enthusiasm.
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Ahead of him, a group of perhaps forty slaves smashed rocks with sledgehammers.
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Meanwhile, the bombastic score signposts plot points with sledgehammer subtlety.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a sledgehammer approach is bad news because it sends out a bad message across the world.
The Sun
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CUTTING YOUR OWN To pound out splits from a felled tree, use wedges and a sledgehammer.
Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps
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He was big and he was strong, but he had never seen anything like the sledgehammer left hook that sent him to cloud-cuckoo-land.
Come Again No More
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This mood continued in the gallery's back room, where one found the aftermath of a performance during which Parrino sledgehammered 13 pieces of Sheetrock that had been painted with black enamel.
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This has given him more freedom to come and go as he pleases, and not worry about where he's going and who he's seeing, without having the possibility of a sledgehammer response coming from the homeland.
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Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Printing business cards on a thirty - inch press is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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They do it with theoretical lucidity and no sledgehammer politics.
