How To Use Hammered In A Sentence

It's fair to say we got well and truly hammered last night. The Sun
Details of how the Pond of Safety Forest will be managed are still being hammered into place, but a skeletal framework is clear.
Amaiya opened her mouth to reply, but her hands flew to her ears as a banshee wail hammered the sky.
In the following decade, I hammered federal training and make-work programs in articles for this newspaper and other publications. My Summer Road to Perdition
He hammered in the nail.

The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car. Ferrari 458 Italia Loses Its Top, Gains Hugely
We all get totally hammered on tiny amounts of the local rice wine, and stay up way past our bedtimes at the Hoài Café.
Since 2008, they have been socked with staggering new bills for bank bailouts and hammered by a Great Recession brought on by the very same banks. Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do
They have further hammered bank profits by wiping out the margin made on deposits. Times, Sunday Times
The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes. Stravinsky Crashes the Party
Peter, however, reassured them somewhat, for, although he was not clad in buckskin and feathers, he wore exquisitely beaded moccasins, a scarlet sash about his waist, a small owl feather sticking in his hat band, and his ears were pierced, displaying huge earrings of hammered silver. The Shagganappi
Recent advertising campaigns from the industry have hammered at these themes.
Then he hammered together a photo frame for his daughter.
The worker hammered the iron flat.
After much haggling and horse-trading, a compromise is hammered out that satisfies few but allows each minister to claim that it could have been much worse.
He was made chief whip, a position he retained after the 1992 election, having been one of the negotiating team that hammered out the coalition deal with Labour.
However Waterford were soon back on the attack and Fitzgerald went close once more as he hammered a right foot shot off the crossbar with Devlin beaten.
He is getting hammered for allowing these words to be in the State of the Union address.
Swords needed leather grips, belts, and leather scabbards overlaid with hammered bronze leaf.
The worst stock market slump in 30 years has hammered global financial stocks, raising fears about the capital strength of banks and insurers.
Canada bowed out in the tournament's first round after getting hammered by Norway and Russia.
For calking the seams they made oakum of dry seaweed, which was hammered in between the planks; then these seams were covered with boiling tar, which was obtained in great abundance from the pines in the forest. The Mysterious Island
We all had a lot to drink but my girlfriend's friend was completely hammered. The Sun
It is possible to order armour from armourers in the North Island and overseas, but much of the armour is home made, hammered out and welded together.
Local bands from around the lake, Peruvian included, played three foot long pan pipes and hammered huge drums, current political borders mean little to their common Indian heritage.
He clapped Bligh's arm, and then turned and hammered on the door.
And they have hammered at the ballooning US national debt and what they described as runaway government spending, vowing to cut taxes and rein in Washington. Canada.com Top Stories
Only the "scroop" of the runners and jingle of the sleigh-bells seemed to be hammered into the brain, for all eternity. From Paris to New York by Land
We had barely hammered in the last tent peg when 50 elephants emerged from the forest to bathe in the river. Times, Sunday Times
We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood.
Traditional folk instruments include the bandura, a variety of flutes, various fiddles and basses, drums and rattles, the bagpipe, the hurdy-gurdy, the Jew's harp, and the hammered dulcimer.
Last year they found some big shoals of bream below Kings Lawn and really hammered them out.
Bach "Stradivarius" USA - . 525" medium large bore, 8" one-piece hand-hammered bell, brass outer slide, clear lacquer.
The door to her loft was of old hammered iron with heavy bolts. Times, Sunday Times
The sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled ci-devant dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
He hammered the nail in the wood.
If it is, then BA's earnings and share price will be hammered.
Most of the spikes were still not hammered down properly.
It's fair to say we got well and truly hammered last night. The Sun
Near gale-force winds and heavy rain hammered the country yesterday. The Sun
It would probably do the culture secretary the world of good to go, even if she is hammered for the new three-year deal for arts funding from the government, announced last month.
Stepahnie, what you write has value, but it glosses over the fact that there are millions, yes, millions, of your fellow citizens who HAVE behaved in a very prudent risk averse manner, and they are going to get hammered along with everyone else, and policies which exacerbate the exposure the risk averse to hammering caused by the behavior of the imprudent/mendacious discourages prudent risk averse behavior in the future. Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers
A door slammed and footfalls hammered the hallway floor.
The stakes are sledgehammered into the ground about 10 to 12 inches and two 3-inch sheetrock screws are used to secure each stake.
For production, the ore was smelted, then the resultant iron bloom was hammered, stretched, and annealed to remove impurities.
But the point somehow needs to be hammered home that more apartment buildings and social housing units need to be urgently put up.
The coach hammered his message into the team.
They had possessed themselves of a number of beetles such as washerwomen use, and hammered in long nails, the points of which projected an inch on the other side in the form of a fleur-de-lis. Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes
We recognised a weakness in their team and hammered it home. Times, Sunday Times
We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood.
But if your interests diverge, you are likely to be hammered. Times, Sunday Times
The nonmetals are neither malleable nor ductile; if drawn out or hammered, they shatter.
Black folks chaffered and bargained with endless talk over plaintains, banana beer, and hammered brass ornaments. Conan of Cimmeria
For musical purposes a wide variety of different bowing gestures are used, such as martelé (hammered bowing with a sudden release) and spiccato (rapid detached notes with the bow bouncing off the strings).
The Fife side hammered their opponents 4-1 at Central Park while the Hampden side slipped up again with a goalless draw against Brechin City at Glebe Park.
He hammered the wedge into the crack in the stone.
I hammered on the door of my brother's room and later on the restroom door.
I did the same, making no further advances to him, though, as I recalled how I hammered his body and head, and how he must have been pricked by falling into the gooseberry bush, I felt sorry, and if he had offered to shake hands I should have forgotten how grubby his always were, and held out mine at once. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
I drank close to a bottle of Chablis the other day while they hammered away fruitlessly at half a dozen natives.
The sharp-eyed filmmaker knew exactly what she wanted, then hammered out exactly what she could afford.
People hammered on train doors and screamed to get out, while crowds in the station ran in all directions, protecting their heads, to get away from the chaos.
The second point that should be hammered home is that the hoodlums who rampaged through the Pune institute decided to express their sentiments after Laine's book had been withdrawn.
She taught me to forge iron bells out of nails hammered into the shape of feathers.
It's still being hammered out, but the signers agreed to contribute $40 million each to a common fund.
Li Yen is the signature restaurant of The Ritz-Carlton and has the snug atmosphere of a private Cantonese club, albeit one enlivened with the bright, cascading notes of a yang quin, or traditional hammered dulcimer, and the chatter of prosperous Chinese families spinning their lazy susans. Kuala Lumpur Update
The only thing they expect is to get hammered on the pitch and in the pubs.
A deal was hammered out that saw Airspeed get a sublicense agreement to built a number of different Fokker designs as well as the DC - 2.
The equaliser came in the final minute when Lee Buggie latched onto a throughball and hammered a shot past the keeper.
Four minutes later Meehan picked up a loose ball and hammered a scorcher into the top corner.
Those tall red cliffs are hammered in the winter months by prevailing north-easterly winds that generate heavy seas.
Such a member is said to be "hammered," and his name is struck off the list.
With him still conscious, they hammered spikes through his wrists and insteps, and into the wood.
It's fair to say we got well and truly hammered last night. The Sun
Robinson hammered the ball into the goal.Sentencedict
But Garry was mistaken in this diagnosis of his, as events turned out; but, ere he could say another word, just then as the colonel was going to make a reply to him, the skipper hammered on the deck with a marling - spike to attract attention and give a hail at the very top of his voice that made us all jump, it was so loud and unexpected. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
In an age that favours froth over substance, and in a tough political world where simple ideas have to be hammered home, the presence of this high-principled intellectual is an anachronism.
Five minutes later a new, keening note appears accompanied by an occasional clang like the hull of an ocean liner being hammered in dry-dock.
He hammered the ball into the net.
Our differences were at last hammered out in discussion.
Tables were filled with hammered turquoise-incrusted bracelets, and earrings. Harlem, Get A Taste of Brooklyn! «
Made in the Upper Rhine region around 1210, it consists of a wooden bust that housed numerous relics and a hammered silver-gilt head that covered it like a divine skin, replete with a jeweled brow band. Art review: Splendor abounds in museum's display of grisly holy relics in Baltimore
Their joint submission, hammered out in meetings between leaders of the council, would see Craven merge with Harrogate and other districts combine to create larger districts able to take on a unitary role.
A new and progressive constitution had to be hammered out. Times, Sunday Times
But they hadn't reckoned on the strength of Ballinrobe, who hammered them by 17 points in the final.
He hammered at the door with his fist.
If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
The speaker hammered at his opponent's ideas.
The beauty of this aspect to Aphex is that he always remembers to shove a melody in there, even if it's hidden beneath layers of tinfoil hammered percussion and walls of groaning sequencers.
This afterall is the main section of the population currently being hammered by sanctioned detections and clearups because they are easy targets, the very people that the majority of us joined the job in the first place to try and help, instead of the shits that consist of 10% of the population who cause 90% of the crime. I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
After much discussion the negotiators hammered out a compromise settlement.
There are few traditional musicians in County Sligo and beyond who haven't hammered out some rasping reels or clipping hornpipes on musky summer evenings.
He hammered a nail into the wall and hung a picture on it.
Now the Scottish Executive plans to challenge the widespread notion that binge drinking and getting hammered is ‘cool’.
From the inevitable tension and debate between these two forces, compromises in strategies are hammered out.
The door to her loft was of old hammered iron with heavy bolts. Times, Sunday Times
For conservative investors burned by supposedly "safe" investments, the credit crisis and slow-motion market crash hammered home one point: Everything carries some measure of risk, and even the stodgiest-seeming products require scrutiny. There's No Such Thing as a 'Safe' Investment
A disk crank is used with suitable counterbalance, expressly adapted to the weight and speed of sash; a hammered steel wrist pin five inches in diameter, and a forged pitman of the most approved pattern, with best composition boxes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
They have had English grammar hammered into them.
The trail down to the foot of the falls was all but vertical, a white-knuckle descent by means of chains and old drill bits hammered into the rock.
He hammered a huge spoon as the sign of my restaurant.
He left a huge gap, a whole grove of empty plinths with his name obliterated from each, herms with their genitalia hammered off. Fortune's Favorites
This is the first time I've ever had a case where in a shoplifting situation somebody has been hammered this relentlessly.
He hammered on the table with his fist.
After 18 months of sparring between the Tories and BBC executives over the level of the licence fee, the future funding of the corporation has been hammered out in frantic negotiations in little over three days, with the broadcaster coming off decidedly second best. BBC licence fee frozen at £145.50 for six years
When they arrive at an interstellar waystation, they find that it's being hammered by hypergravity shock waves originating in nearby Starmaker, better known to Bandicut as the Great Orion Nebula. Free eBook: Sunborn by Jeffrey A. Carver (Multiple Formats)
Yesterday's rather grandly named race was revalued by the unseasonally fast ground and those who took the 2-1 on about Ansar were given an early heart attack when he hammered the second fence with his chest.
But if your interests diverge, you are likely to be hammered. Times, Sunday Times
Once he had been up to his knees in a tempting blancmanger-like lake of lime, many times had he hammered or cut his fingers, and once his legs had gone through the new drawing-room ceiling, where he hung by the petticoats screaming till rescued by his brother. The Young Step-Mother
Thunder rolled and raindrops hammered the gardens of Halliel as the storm gave full vent to its fury.
We got a glimpse of what may be possible when we hammered Doncaster in the opening game.
Brazil went on to win the tournament in a well-known final where they hammered Italy 4--1. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Just as European institutions are repatriating investments from the U.S., so U.S. institutions are repatriating money from the euro zone, where stocks have been hammered, too.
In an article, "The Political History of Cap and Trade," published in Smithsonian Magazine in August 2009, Richard Conniff details how "an unlikely mix of environmentalists and free-market conservatives hammered out the strategy known as cap-and-trade. NYT > Home Page
My teacher, however, was an exceptionally patient man, and every piece of wood I miscut, every nail I hammered in wrong, he calmly sorted out for me, removing the nail and putting it back straight, planing my hacked at wood. Catching Up Again « Tales from the Reading Room
"The environment is getting hammered by all sorts of stressors and any effort to reduce microplastics is a good thing."
The Fuller Brooch is a large disc made of hammered sheet silver inlaid with black niello and with a diameter of 11.4 cm. Archive 2008-01-01
All this information will be analyzed and, after as many as 11 drafts, a performance outline will be hammered out.
Gravity stifled her, hammered her red blood cells.
Maple handrails cap lacy steel balusters painted with Hammerite, a brand of finish that crinkles as it dries, resulting in a hammered-iron look.
They have further hammered bank profits by wiping out the margin made on deposits. Times, Sunday Times
Elements of Kina myth could be hammered into conformity with the tenets of the only true religion, given a quick coat of blackwash, and I would have completed a course of religious acrobatics elegant enough to spark the pride of my childhood teachers. Water Sleeps
But we were hammered by a much better team and it taught me a whole lot in one painful night. The Sun
In six speeches during the course of seven days, President Obama has hammered home his call for Congress to act on his $447 billion jobs plan, saying some version of the phrase "pass this bill" more than 100 times. ABC News: Top Stories
Decide whether you want to sink posts into the ground or use post supports, which are hammered in or bolted on to concrete. Times, Sunday Times
And the rain hammered the villa from all sides and the wind howled eerily, wanting to get in.
This is the technology that will someday lead to the kind of prosthetics I wrote about in Hammered. The mystery flourishes best in times of acute anxiety and depression
It is possible to order armour from armourers in the North Island and overseas, but much of the armour is home made, hammered out and welded together.
Then he hammered together a photo frame for his daughter.
A cuckoo called from faraway, a greater spotted woodpecker hammered out an urgent tattoo.
Jesus is flung on the rough timber and iron spikes are hammered through his hands and feet.
The chancellor's upbeat pre-budget report hammered home the message that the economy will be fit to meet challenges from Asia and China.
He hammered the ball into the net.
After that nails are hammered through the pre-punched holes as the pieces are attached to the wood.
They pummelled their way upfield, they hammered at the Argentina line but got nowhere. Times, Sunday Times
During drilling a hollow steel core barrel with an inner rod with pointed tip was hammered into the sand by percussion and hydraulic pressure.
We all had a lot to drink but my girlfriend's friend was completely hammered. The Sun
The cops tolerated the amiable disorderliness of it all ever since rousting a bunch of skating lawyers a few years ago and getting hammered in court and in the court of public opinion.
Like Barbara I am very attracted to hand hammered carbon steel woks, but my traditional Chinese cast iron wok is so good at getting VERY hot and imparting wok-hay, and it’s so seasoned and easy to use now, I am not sure that a carbon steel would ever get used. Tigers & Strawberries » Wok Words
The axe can then be hammered in further with a wooden mallet.
Included amongst them were a Roman denarius, several silver Roman hammered coins, a Saxon worker's livery badge and a partial bronze axe head dating back some 2,500 years.
You've had a whole bit of you removed, and so it's small wonder you're feeling hammered - or, as my father used to say "filleted" - now you're back home, on several levels, mental, emotional and physical. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The result is broken or stretched contracts, sloppy novels hammered out in a rush, or a sort or imaginative pedestrianism born of over analysis. Yes I'm that crazy old mountain man...
She hammered a nail into the wall.
The Princess Kathleen, made to order in Scotland for the Canadian Pacific Railway, once boasted two stained glass dome solariums, hammered brass ornaments and carved hardwood detailing, all in native American motifs.
He hammered the young Austrian player in four straight sets.
My stamina is still so hammered, typing this much leaves my fingers trembling to the extent I have trouble keeping them in line with QWERTY. Diary 7 November 2009
Picking Bayh would be kind of ironical, seeing as it was Dan Quayle who jackhammered his dad's butt out of the Senate, sending him back to private life after spending some 30 years in Congress. I call Barack Obama to account for picking another bland, midwestern pretty boy.
To the township's astonishment, their team hammered one visiting club after another.
Secure it with two nails hammered flush, at a 45-degree angle just below the next highest row of shingles.
In the squares the black folk chaffered and bargained over plantains, beer and hammered brass ornaments. The Conan Chronicles
I may leave parties a little earlier than usual, when the chat gets unintelligible to anyone who isn't hammered.
_Click, click, click, click_ rang the hammer, and _splish, splash_ went the fragments of rock that fell in the water or were thrown into it; and thus for quite two hours Mr Temple hammered away, and after giving up a fragmentary conversation Dick and Josh grew silent or only spoke at intervals. Menhardoc
He hammered a silver spike into a railroad crosstie.
It uses our expectations about the fallout of child sexual abuse, hammered home by our culture of pop psychology, to fake us out and sell its mystery.
Two long hops followed, both hammered to deep mid-wicket for more runs. Times, Sunday Times
What happened to his father, of course, was his father got hammered by Democrats for seemingly being inattentive to an onset of a recession, and that's partly how he lost his job.
Hence, they are resolute in not placing themselves in a position of having to acquiesce to another agreement hammered out by the rich countries.
The Florentine artists took a sheet of gold or of silver and divided the sheet up with great scissors, and then they hammered the cut-out pieces as only a Florentine hammerman could hammer them. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
Due to shortages of iron and steel barbed wire entanglements were erected using wood posts hammered into the ground.
I hammered a picture frame.
Each spoon in the set has different applied ornament and etched decoration on a hammered ground.
The weakened side were hammered 62-2 and they could face another beating this week unless some players choose to return.
But flying to Mexico in the middle of the afternoon and getting hammered is not always an option.
The beer tent at the finish line will take your mind off your hammered corpus.
On this day it was a question of dodging the rain that at times hammered down, and then of course out came the Sun, and it was like playing in a sauna.
That remark will probably get me hammered by Apple's intense, die-hard, unquestioningly loyal fans.
We've sprayed it with Q10, hammered it, chiselled it, attempted to lever it out with a crowbar - all to no avail.
The norm now for a good night is to get drunk, to get sozzled, to get hammered.
Steel wedges were driven into the fault and hammered with a sledge until the stone separated.
If you live a frugal life and put some money away for your old age, you get hammered. The Sun
He hammered it down tight -- fivepenny nails into highvarnished oak. American Tabloid
The inquiry counsel annoyed the press by attacking their coverage and got hammered himself as a result.
Lackluster economic growth and a precipitous fall in the stock market have hammered German banks.
Western keyboard and hammered instruments have go from low to high as you move to the right — I believe the xylophone-like instruments in gamelan orchestras are like this too — which means that the more technically difficult lines are more often played with the right hand. Matthew Yglesias » Alphabetism
The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.
They had sledgehammered the door and it caved in.
The axe can then be removed an sometimes hammered in further along the split.
Robinson hammered the ball into the goal.
It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out.
So she would direct her non-drinking camera guy to get shots of me being all stumbly and hammered. Archive 2009-06-14
Traditional folk instruments include the bandura, a variety of flutes, various fiddles and basses, drums and rattles, the bagpipe, the hurdy-gurdy, the Jew's harp, and the hammered dulcimer.
Pensioners and workers are hammered by this Tory tax while the wealthy pay a pittance.
Its stock has been hammered because it's struggling with recent acquisitions, but Moore believes those are short-term problems.
Like most stock investments, the age-based portfolios have been hammered this year, but some fared better than others.
A group of male nurses were playing pickup basketball on a worn wooden backboard someone had hammered up. DO NO HARM
All have applied ornament as well as etched or engraved decoration on a spot-hammered ground.
It's not so much that they are lairy or rude or stare at people, they just tend to be a bit loud when hammered and some people tend to take exception to that.
a bowl of hammered brass
The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.
Shapes were created by bending the hammered bars around angles on the anvil.
For the week, 2-year Treasury yields jumped 14 basis points to 6.62%. Eurodollars were hammered today as well, with the implied yield on the December Eurodollar futures contract surging 15 basis points.
The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries.
Hayden looked to be having the time of her life - we brought out the best in her, even when a majority of us were quite hammered.
I hammered on all the doors to raise the alarm.
She hammered in the steel tent pegs.
Occasionally a piece is accented with simple inlays of pewter, copper or wood marquetry, but most frequently Stickley relies on vigorous strap hinges, bale drawer-pulls and other wrought-iron or hammered copper hardware to lend ornament to the restrained Craftsman design vocabulary. Four-Square Reformer
In the Fifties, radiant heating using hot water pipes embedded in concrete floor slabs made a promising entrance - and a humiliating exit after leaks required countless slabs to be jackhammered up for repair.
He hammered the nails into the wall.
The clathrate gun hyopthesis has received attention lately, although it's been benevolently referred to as a "methane burp" rather than an apocalyptic release of methane that hammered in the nails of past mass extinctions. Scott Thill: We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction

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