hatchets
- plural of hatchet.
Example Sentences
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The documentary closes on a similar note: Take That are national treasures, their reputation is secure, their hatchets are buried.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
The smugglers had placed the radio and hatchets there to help the migrants call for help and break out of the trailer should they run into trouble.
From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2022
The sound of hatchets resonates across the field: thwack, thwack, thwack.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021
This is perhaps why the title of Aron’s book is taken from Carry Nation, the 19th-century temperance crusader who took hatchets to bar tops and greeted bartenders as “destroyers of men’s souls.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2020
Whereupon a mile and a half of blundering fishermen went berserk, jumping into the stream and charging after the prey with everything except hatchets and hand grenades.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
