axes
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Example Sentences
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The towering ambition of the men remaking the landscape with saws and axes, and the men, like Grainier, who were somehow pulled through that current.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
Climbers venturing along the Devil's Backbone trail are advised to carry crampons and ice axes.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
That advice included “find a private cadre of advisers who have no axes to grind” and “call your mom.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
Up to several hundred trucks can be escorted at a time, but even with the military by their side, convoys are still frequently targeted, especially on two key southern axes.
From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025
The moors their axes had stripped of trees glowed silver in the moonlight, and the yellow lights of peasant huts were like scattered jewels on the ravendark cloak of a king.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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