Get to know Hammering better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like hammer or pound.
Hammering meaning
- A period of being beaten or hammered.
- A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer.
- A heavy defeat.
Using Hammering
- The main meaning on this page is: A period of being beaten or hammered. | A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer. | A heavy defeat.
- Useful related words include: hammer, pound, pounding, blow.
- In the example corpus, hammering often appears in combinations such as: hammering out, hammering the, by hammering.
Context around Hammering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hammering
- In this selection, "hammering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, constituency, left, charge, allen, allin and guitar stand out and add context to how "hammering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 4 0 hammering at the and 4 1 hammering at crawley. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hammering" sits close to words such as abel, adjective and arvind, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hammering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Before the final chorus, Kevin launched into a hammering guitar solo. (11 words)
Back from commercial, Joe in charge, hammering Allin with kicks in the middle of the ring! (16 words)
Meanwhile, the No campaign is hammering home the opposite message: that it actually further divides Australians. (16 words)
Martin Luther himself never mentions hammering his work to the church - in fact, the only mention of this date involves Luther sending his theses to the local archbishop, which we can all agree is a much less dramatic tale. (39 words)
Edlir Bani, aged 38 and of no fixed address, by hammering at the roof of a unit at the Izons Industrial Estate in Oldbury Road after officers stormed the unit on June 27 following a tip-off. (37 words)
Further muddying the waters is that Campbell is fighting one front for Huggins while two other attorneys of his, Bob Fitzsimmons and James "Rocky" Gianola, were busy hammering out an agreement with WVU for retirement benefits. (36 words)
Back from commercial, Joe in charge, hammering Allin with kicks in the middle of the ring! (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
Mr Kyle said that the Lib Dems had come into the constituency 'hammering from the left, hammering from the right' and 'coming up with statistics that were completely nonsensical'.
The Knicks didn’t seize the low-hanging fruit of hammering Allen’s hammering, and that’s as it should have been.
A 2-1 loss at Queen’s Park, on the back of a 4-0 hammering at the hands of Dundee United on the opening day, means Lichties are bottom after two games.
A 6-0 hammering by Hibs was icing on the most unpalatable cake of Aberdeen’s 120-year history.
Back from commercial, Joe in charge, hammering Allin with kicks in the middle of the ring!
Before the final chorus, Kevin launched into a hammering guitar solo.
County headed into the game off the back of a 4-1 hammering at Crawley but showed their character to tot up another point.
Edlir Bani, aged 38 and of no fixed address, by hammering at the roof of a unit at the Izons Industrial Estate in Oldbury Road after officers stormed the unit on June 27 following a tip-off.
Further muddying the waters is that Campbell is fighting one front for Huggins while two other attorneys of his, Bob Fitzsimmons and James "Rocky" Gianola, were busy hammering out an agreement with WVU for retirement benefits.
He also pledged to tackle the meth crisis hammering the city's downtown by putting money into harm-reduction initiatives but would not commit to a supervised consumption site.
I probably don't have to keep hammering on this subject but the chart is certainly one of the more interesting ones to watch so far this week.
Just 22 starts across the past two years sums up the hammering Bamford’s stock has taken.
Late-stage tech companies have largely avoided debuting onto the public market over the past year due to general volatility hammering stocks.
Martin Luther himself never mentions hammering his work to the church - in fact, the only mention of this date involves Luther sending his theses to the local archbishop, which we can all agree is a much less dramatic tale.
Meanwhile, the No campaign is hammering home the opposite message: that it actually further divides Australians.
On Tuesday, Kosovo's Kurti said he was optimistic about hammering out a deal but put the onus of signing the agreement with Vucic.
Opening bivalve shellfish is tough when you are twisting with a bill or hammering a hole in the shell.
Perhaps, HS Prannoy reckoned he had done enough of the fighting back when he reached 19-14 in the decider after hammering down two successive power-smashes from the backcourt.
Ramos gives his side (and my typing fingers) a break by calling for the tee and hammering it over from about 45 metres.
Restricted from hammering out advertising deals, Ms. Yaccarino has instead repaired at least one relationship, between Twitter and Google; talked with regulators; and focused on employee morale.
Common combinations with hammering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hammering out 15×
- hammering the 15×
- by hammering 14×
- hammering at 11×
- hammering on 10×
- the hammering 10×
- and hammering 10×
- hammering away 10×
- of hammering 8×
- hammering of 7×