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

In an unprecedented look at perhaps the strangest, most captivating animals in the ocean, University of Florida scientists have documented how hammerhead sharks stretch and distort their skulls into their namesake hammer-like shape.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

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