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01. The nail bent when I tried to [hammer] it into the board.
02. I'll need a bigger [hammer] to pound these large nails into the beam.
03. We saw a science demonstration at school in which they dipped a banana in liquid nitrogen, and then used it like a [hammer] to pound a nail into a board.
04. His thumb began to swell after he hit it with a [hammer].
05. Could you reach into my tool box, and grab me a [hammer].
06. There are about 7,500 different parts in a piano which play a role in sending the [hammers] against the strings when the keys are played.
07. The old man [hammered] on the door of the apartment where the party was taking place.
08. He [hammered] on the table with his fists and shouted in anger.
09. The Opposition [hammered] at the theme of government corruption in every advertisement prior to the election.
10. The report [hammers] tobacco companies for trying to hide the dangers of smoking from the public.
11. On November 7, 1885, Donald Alexander Smith [hammered] in the last spike to complete the transcontinental railway across Canada.
12. A Japanese proverb warns that the nail that sticks up gets [hammered] down.
13. Football coach John Heisman once stated, "When you find your opponent's weak spot, [hammer] it."
14. Mao Zedong once said, "Communism is not love. Communism is a [hammer] which we use to crush the enemy."

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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