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- verb Present participle of
sledgehammer .
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Examples
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I saw the rise of Japan, watched on TV a bunch of Detroit workers making a show of sledgehammering a Toyota.
Matthew Yglesias » What’s Not the Matter With American Manufacturing 2009
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Worker is sledgehammering cement, signs recall petition for mayor Sam Adams.
Here we go again with copyright and Oregon public records (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Stephen Deas shatters this mystery, sledgehammering the dragon mythos into fragments, in his awesome new novel The Adamantine Palace.
Archive 2009-04-01 Paul 2009
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Stephen Deas shatters this mystery, sledgehammering the dragon mythos into fragments, in his awesome new novel The Adamantine Palace.
"The Adamantine Palace" by Stephen Deas (Gollancz) Paul 2009
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The contact of my feet against the earth sends sledgehammering blasts of pain through my joints.
Gladiator Dan Clark 2009
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Can we help but smirk over the fact that this married, decent representative of the Empire State, who proudly referred to himself as a sledgehammer, diverted some of his sledgehammering funds to stick his penis in some stranger's vagina repeatedly until he achieved ejaculation the night before Valentine's Day in the Mayflower?
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The contact of my feet against the earth sends sledgehammering blasts of pain through my joints.
Gladiator Dan Clark 2009
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Poetic language can be wielded beautifully, and I imagine it should be used delicately as well, but the effect from Something Wicked is more like a poetic sledgehammer wielded by someone learning the nuance of sledgehammering.
Archive 2007-01-01 Fred Perry 2007
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Poetic language can be wielded beautifully, and I imagine it should be used delicately as well, but the effect from Something Wicked is more like a poetic sledgehammer wielded by someone learning the nuance of sledgehammering.
Something Wicked This Way Comes Fred Perry 2007
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If you think I'm just sledgehammering opinions like your typical partisan political blogger, you will stumble endlessly here.
The number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war... Ann Althouse 2006
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