anvils
- plural of anvil.
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Bynum uses allusions like anvils, following up that sour note by cueing the ballad “The Beast in Me” by Nick Lowe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Those standards require that helmet manufacturers evaluate their product’s safety performance by dropping a helmeted dummy head made of magnesium about 6.5 feet onto a variety of steel anvils.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2023
Each stroke Wednesday night seemed a little harder until, by the end of the match, she was delivering hammers and anvils.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2022
But a decade ago, researchers found, using diamond anvils at outer core conditions, that iron conducts heat at least twice as fast as previously thought.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2022
Moving her lips rapidly, she held her rosary tightly and recited each Hail Mary with a desperate gravity, as though she were flinging anvils at the gates of Heaven.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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