hammer-like
- a word derived from hammer.
Example Sentences
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Too many financial tools are either over or under-restrictive in this way — applying a hammer-like approach to a problem that requires scalpel-like precision.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2024
Culturally, anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals had similar stone tool technology, such as making tools using 'Levallois methods', which involved striking stones with a hammer-like tool.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2024
To fashion the handmade cars, Guerrero presumably used a large hammer-like tool Ditto saw him carrying.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2016
Where ballet is buoyant, his dynamics are hammer-like; and his tempos tend to straitjacket dancers.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2016
To the front of him a white man pounded with a hammer-like piece of wood upon a table.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
