Example Sentences
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The book has a large, hammerlike engine, yet it is content to purr.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2016
Three or four times a day, a crew armed with telescoping yellow poles topped with hammerlike appendages rolls through the tunnels hunting for icicles.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2015
Two little hammerlike contraptions came down and trailed along the edges of the notched disks, rising and falling as the disks steadily turned.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
Two little hammerlike contraptions came down and trailed along the edges of the notched disks, rising and falling as the disks steadily turned.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
There was no attempt at rhetoric, but hard, hammerlike blows.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell)
