bevel-faced hammer

[ bev-uhl-feyst ]

/ ˈbɛv əlˌfeɪst /

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a riveting hammer having an oblique face.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

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In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.
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A sad-faced orange Star of David flashed across the iPhone screen as we swiped left on “James” (not his real name).
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The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
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If Huckabee runs, the hurdles he faced the last time out, namely geography and money, would still be there.
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I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
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With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.
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"I'll take charge of this, Captain Dobson," he brusquely informed the red-faced numskull.
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