Sledgehammer is an English word with synonyms like sledge or hammer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sledgehammer meaning
A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.
Using Sledgehammer
- The main meaning on this page is: A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.
- Useful related words include: sledge, hammer, maul.
- In the example corpus, sledgehammer often appears in combinations such as: with sledgehammer, the sledgehammer, sledgehammer and.
Context around Sledgehammer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sledgehammer
- In this selection, "sledgehammer" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, decorated, trusty, musket, games, presented and kershaw stand out and add context to how "sledgehammer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include with a sledgehammer and a musket sledgehammer knife meat. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sledgehammer" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sledgehammer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Make sure you don't leave the house without your trusty sledgehammer! (12 words)
He had also threatened to smash his partner's cat with a sledgehammer. (13 words)
Beside his coffin lay a sinisterly decorated sledgehammer presented by the Wagner private army. (14 words)
This was his reaction to two years of sledgehammer grief; he lost three of his close friends, all in their late 40s or early 50s, while his son lost his best friend, aged nine, suddenly in his sleep (Rob spoke at all their funerals). (44 words)
The director duo went on to reveal that the basement where Wick puts his sledgehammer to use was one of the few sets they actually had built, with most of the film being shot in and around Manhattan and Brooklyn. (40 words)
Since it’s believed to have started as DLC, it’s said Sledgehammer’s next game is a continuation of Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 story, with many fans already referring to it as Modern Warfare 2.5. (39 words)
Make sure you don't leave the house without your trusty sledgehammer! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
As others gleefully tried to “obliterate Vivek,” there was no need for DeSantis to “take a sledgehammer” to his rival, as a leaked debate prep memo urged him to do.
Beside his coffin lay a sinisterly decorated sledgehammer presented by the Wagner private army.
Every night you came home appearing as if you had encountered the wrong end of Harley Quinn’s sledgehammer.
For now, however, people still seem willing to give it and Sledgehammer Games a chance to fix its problems.
It is the latest entry in the series and the first game from Sledgehammer Games since their last World War 2 title in 2017.
LendLease project director Elyse Howard, PTA Canberra chair Ryan Hemsley and Transport Minister Chris Steel all took a sledgehammer to the old Woden bus interchange.
Make sure you don't leave the house without your trusty sledgehammer!
Prigozhin invited those present to ask Yakushchenko "whether he was killed with a sledgehammer".
Since it’s believed to have started as DLC, it’s said Sledgehammer’s next game is a continuation of Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 story, with many fans already referring to it as Modern Warfare 2.5.
The city has kept trying new and different methods of securing streetlights from thieves, “but they’re persistent in … continuing to break into the base,” sometimes even using a sledgehammer, Kershaw said.
The court heard that Hogg and Dixon had climbed on to the roof, but were also equipped with a sledgehammer, crowbar and a drill.
The director duo went on to reveal that the basement where Wick puts his sledgehammer to use was one of the few sets they actually had built, with most of the film being shot in and around Manhattan and Brooklyn.
This includes an arsenal of a musket, sledgehammer, knife, meat tenderizer, and a dart gun.
This was his reaction to two years of sledgehammer grief; he lost three of his close friends, all in their late 40s or early 50s, while his son lost his best friend, aged nine, suddenly in his sleep (Rob spoke at all their funerals).
Which is surprising considering every song from that record is "one-hundred story tall sledgehammer falling" levels of heavy.
Dave Davies’ power-chord guitar intro rips through like a sledgehammer knocking down a wall.
He had also threatened to smash his partner's cat with a sledgehammer.
He kicked off his headline slot on a full-moon Saturday with a pyrotechnic show that spat flames into the sky, before launching into РђюRockstar," featuring sledgehammer guitars and some pretty cheeky lyrics.
In a separate case, father-of-three Stuart Randall, 55, who took a sledgehammer to cars at a garage belonging to a foreign national while the terrified owner cowered inside with his family, was jailed for three years.
In a video that surfaced in November 2022, a former Wagner mercenary who allegedly defected to the Ukrainian side but later was captured by Russia, was shown being beaten to death with a sledgehammer, the mercenary group's symbol.
Common combinations with sledgehammer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- with sledgehammer 14×
- the sledgehammer 9×
- sledgehammer and 9×
- sledgehammer to 7×
- using sledgehammer 5×
- sledgehammer games 4×
- took sledgehammer 3×
- of sledgehammer 3×
- take sledgehammer 2×
- from sledgehammer 2×