How To Use Sledge In A Sentence

These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym. CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
I clung onto bits of ice and tried desperately to remove the harness attaching me to the sledge.
The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

Just then, an ettin shoved a heavy sledge into view. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
I grabbed an ice pick off the sledge and tramped away from the camp towards the face of Portal Mountain.
This summer, I realized I was the servant and it the master and resolved this inversion of the natural order in Kirkian fashion, by taking a sledgehammer to it.
It would have taken a sledgehammer to keep me off the pitch. The Sun
Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow?
Wiley kittens can almost always outlast Navy Seals with sledgehammers. Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Industrial Complex
A huge enemy shell burst a few yards to the right front of the amtrack, hurling seawater skyward, as Sledge clung to the rail. Brotherhood of Heroes
Another was sledged almost halfway up Mount Taranaki, to provide accommodation for visitors.
And the sign-off at the end of his first letter is a laugh-line with a sledgehammer punch.
Your piece last month on sporting insults was missing a memorable sledge from an Australia v Zimbabwe cricket match.
We had five overturned sledge accidents - every one of our sledges suffered an overturn or two, but luckily no significant damage was incurred.
Like so many failed expeditions before them, Sir John and his men would be fleeing for their lives, dragging longboats and whalers and hastily clabbered-together sledges across the rotten ice, praying for open leads and then cursing them when the sledges fell through the ice and the contrary winds blew the heavy boats back on the pack ice, leads that meant days and nights of rowing for the starving men. The Terror
The scenes are acted with sledgehammer humour, unworthy of Williamson's usually sleek style.
Not too much imagery as such, just a hint of rawness with use of dumb-bells and sledgehammer to break the monotonous nature of gun-shot violence.
One criticism of the young fast bowler is, he is not particularly aggressive; he has never sledged an opponent on the field.
The competitors who travel by foot and skis pulling sledges with supplies, will cover over 350 miles in four stages from Resolute Bay, Canada, to the North Magnetic Pole.
We must respect established treaties, agreements and processes without crushing the fragile flower of democracy with a sledgehammer. Times, Sunday Times
The sledge gained momentum as it ran down the hill.
I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lira.
Not to mention our night-time dog sledge ride. Times, Sunday Times
I taught myself to swim in Leg of Mutton pond, skated on Pen Ponds when they froze, sledged in Petersham Park when it snowed, built dams across the brook, and learnt to ride a bike on the path to Bog Lodge.
Asked what they had been up to in their alpine retreat, the Teplice coach laughed: ‘Mainly skis, sledges and bobsleighs.’
Sled hockey called sledge hockey in Canada is an amazing sport, something you have to see to appreciate. Archive 2005-12-01
The whaling ship Terra Nova sailed from New Zealand in November 1910 and the expedition set off from base the following October, with mechanical sledges, ponies and dogs.
We parbuckled him out by means of the Alpine rope, which was quickly detached from the sledge, South with Scott
The sawing heartbeat of a panther morphs into a subway train sledge-hammering, smashing the ground, until it screeches to a morse code halt. 2008 December 20 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes.
Adding more debt to a debt ridden business is like adding a sledge to the back of a man trudging through six foot deep snow.
But in praising the aspiration to work the extra hour, he took a sledgehammer to those earning the extra pound that takes them into the 40% tax bracket. The Conservatives and Welfare
A heavy wooden sledge would also help. Times, Sunday Times
It uses areas in northern Finland for its tours and promises individual family visits to Santa and no hidden charges for activities such as husky sledge rides. Times, Sunday Times
The stakes are sledgehammered into the ground about 10 to 12 inches and two 3-inch sheetrock screws are used to secure each stake.
Which is outside on the sledge getting snowed on. Times, Sunday Times
He turned his head around and saw Sledge behind him, his face smoldering with hatred.
Once crowded in here, the creatures were prisoned, each in a separate pen, by gates that shut, leaving them no room to turn around; and while they stood bellowing and plunging, over the top of the pen there leaned one of the "knockers," armed with a sledge hammer, and watching for a chance to deal a blow. The Jungle
After that they took the body and laid it on the sledge and drove to Bergthorsknoll, and drew it into the sheepcote, and made him sit upright against the wall. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
The whole set-up, the diabetes, and the sledgehammer violence were all played in a way that's atypical of what I expect in a mainstream film, feeling much more like a fringe flick in the greasy intensity of it all.
They advise sledgers to don protective gear and not to go out without parental supervision.
The force of each bite was like a sledgehammer with teeth. Times, Sunday Times
The wind blows snow around the abandoned and empty sledge, which is little more than runners now. The Terror
Never go for the subtle quip when the goofy sledgehammer punchline will do.
Of the ten times Frazier's been down, eight are by the sledgehammer fist of Big George.
We're in the odd position where adults are being sledged by other adults for being huge bipedal babies.
It was amazing how much gay-themed music they played, like four Village People songs and a lot of Sister Sledge.
Sledgers should ensure there is plenty of room at the end of the run to slow and stop.
The 47-year-old teacher and her five kids were snoozing when eight armed crooks used sledgehammers to break through her wall, unnecessarily because she would have let them in the door.
I'm not much of a sledger. The Sun
The worst the sledger need fear is that his opponent will respond with words more vile than he can summon. Times, Sunday Times
Fiennes developed severe frostbite after removing a glove while attempting to retrieve a sledge from freezing water.
Graham attempted to jump Toby, but he was prepared and rammed the mallet of the sledgehammer into Graham's stomach.
In the other picture, five black men in undershirts and overalls are driving a massive iron support into the ground with heavy sledgehammers.
Tanks attacked first with infantry literally in tow as many tanks pulled along infantry soldiers on sledges.
In the afternoon it was even stronger, and I had to go back on the sledge and act as guide and brakesman. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
Barnes could easily have made this novel into a sledgehammer indictment of racism, but what he does is far more subtle.
They were twelve hours covering the thirty versts, and at Katschuk Rezánov succumbed for two days, while Jón scoured the country in search of a telega; as sometimes happened there was a long stretch of country without snow, and sledges, by far the most comfortable method of travel in Siberia, could not be used. Rezánov
Sledges run well over frozen snow.
He gets trapped on the ropes and then takes a sledgehammer left. The Sun
Sheriff's officials have testified they used a sledgehammer to break into Mr Miller's office in Beverly Hills and seized videotapes and files related to the case.
You poised the sledge on a giddy height and down you would fly. The Sun
She has had to pull a 60 lb sledge across 200 miles in sub zero temperatures.
It uses areas in northern Finland for its tours and promises individual family visits to Santa and no hidden charges for activities such as husky sledge rides. Times, Sunday Times
I respect the wooden sledge's history, but we want to appeal to the adrenaline junkie. Times, Sunday Times
Yet a whole lot of people arm themselves with sledgehammer tackle when they are gunning for modest-size fish.
The sledge gained momentum as it ran down the hill.
He was fast-witted, known for being an outstanding sledger, and always making up nicknames for his teammates. Times, Sunday Times
Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Clearly, there's no shortage of readers eager to hitch a sledge-ride into the lost world of pemmican, finnesko, man-hauling and hoosh, satisfyingly sealed off in time by the jagged crevasse of World War I.
It was a small and peaceful demonstration so I don't know why there was such a big police presence. It was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Leonard would fight on his toes and thus avoiding Hagler sledgehammer shots.
A funicular railway scales the mountain to the jumping-off point for the sledge run, which winds five kilometres downhill back to the railway terminus.
The band is amped, and even the ballads quake with fat bass lines, piano chords issued with sledgehammer bravado and the vocals hustled to the front of the mix.
The sledge coasted down the mountain slope.
Perhaps more importantly, he was one of the few British polar expedition members who appreciated the value of using dogs to haul sledges.
No one tunes a piano with a hammer, but I sometimes see racers take a sledgehammer approach to tuning engines.
The sledge coasted down the mountain slope.
Singing volunteers, and construction workers who said they receive about US $1 a day, now sledgehammer rocks and repair roofs at various monasteries and other old buildings.
It was all her stupidity! 'he thought, recalling his unloved wife, and he rolled over into his old place at the front part of the sledge. Master and Man
The sledge hits a bump and I am off, using my camera as a snow hook.
Scott himself, with Shackleton, made a sledge journey to beyond 82 degrees south in 1902.
The dogs were just like Olympic athletes - well trained and really happy only if they were pulling the sledge at a reasonable clip through the trees. Times, Sunday Times
And in August, 2000, two robbers carrying a sledgehammer, a baseball bat and a knife struck while a customer was inside.
He sent Senator Lambie a series of sledges on her departure, saying she would not achieve much as an independent.
Large heavy items were either carried on primitive carts or dragged on sledges, and loose bulk materials were carried in panniers on horses.
Mijangos used a sledgehammer to break down the door.
All in all this car is probably safer than the estate we drive around in normally, which in comparison handles like a tractor pulling a sledge full of sand.
He was fast-witted, known for being an outstanding sledger, and always making up nicknames for his teammates. Times, Sunday Times
After all, politicians don't usually perform comedy acts where they smash produce with sledgehammers.
they used picks and sledges to break the rocks
I went tobogganing with my sister and her friend, using those big industrial plastic sacks as sledges.
A lot of people were in the bar watching our sledge trains come around over the sea ice as we pulled up at the field store hangar.
The estuary and Khawr waterway have been combed by helicopters hauling mine detectors on sledges, and by minesweepers and minehunters, while Chatham's helicopter provided air support.
To make the cut, use a brick chisel and a hand-drilling hammer (small sledge) to score a cut line all around the block.
But for all its qualities, it wields a satirical sledgehammer. Times, Sunday Times
Our current citizenship laws are problematical but why go the sledgehammer route which will just whip up racism?
The five sledgers in the polar party were dead, though nobody yet knew how or where they had perished.
Employing an experienced chef to make sandwiches is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
The fourth gold was in sledge hockey, in which the U.S. men beat Japan 2-0 in the final. Paralympic multimedalist Nichols takes weekly honor
Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
If you are sledged, and, trust me lads, it's going to happen, then give as good as you get.
We ski and snowboard and sledge. Times, Sunday Times
In a few hours, with the aid of some telephone poles and some shoring, the Chinese lifted the wing, Tex lowered the gear and drove the down lock in with a sledge hammer.
There is a growing sense that sensible and necessary regulation has been replaced by an expensive and ineffective regulatory sledgehammer. Times, Sunday Times
Ideal for speed lovers, six excited huskies pull you along trails in a wooden sledge. The Sun
The republicans, meanwhile, would prefer to use a sledgehammer where a flyswatter is appropriate. Senators call for regime change in Iran, but differ on how
Slowly, carefully, the thirty-two sledge-pullers worked together to unlash the heavy coffin and lower it down precisely angled boards to its temporary resting place on the wooden superstructure just above the rectangle of black water. The Terror
We returned to camp, hitched one sledge to each Skidoo, then began making our way towards a little rocky hill just north of Kanak Peak.
Children across York and North Yorkshire reached for their sledges yesterday as a dusting of snow transformed much of the county into a winter wonderland.
The shuttle began rocking, like someone was pounding at it with a sledgehammer.
The force of each bite was like a sledgehammer with teeth. Times, Sunday Times
Where the Lutetian Palace of Julian saluted their darling as Augustus, the sledge-hammer and the stucco of the Haussmann fiat bear desolation in their wake. Under Two Flags
The paper's known for its long campaign to sledge the broadcaster at every possible opportunity.
Giving a whole new meaning to the term fanatic, this deranged devotee and No 1 fan of a romance-novel writer (James Caan), holds him against his will, forces a rewrite of the protagonist's fate and then sledgehammers his legs so he can't escape from her. TODAYonline
The phrase sledge hammer to crack a nut seems to apply. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Last night Bessi had bent his rim so the air got out, making a flat. After taking off the tire Dagur is able to use a sledge hammer to get it back into proper shape , stopping the leak.
It was our first attempt in the field at lashing down the sledges tightly and preparing the skidoos for a full day's sledging.
I respect the wooden sledge's history, but we want to appeal to the adrenaline junkie. Times, Sunday Times
The wintry weather continues in Swindon but children needn't reach for their sledges just yet.
The sledge is a more serious device for this longer trip. The Terror
Hannan, W. H., at Main Base; work at the hut; wireless work; the drift gauge; as magnetician; working of the air-tractor sledge; the wireless at W.nter Quarters; return to Australia; account of The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
If ever a sledge hammer had been used to crack an egg, this was the time.
SOMETIMES the only way to crack a nut is with a sledgehammer.
Which is outside on the sledge getting snowed on. Times, Sunday Times
We walked over to the sledge ride and that's when the armband came in.
Jobs have been lost all over the US - but Ohio has been hit by a series of sledgehammer blows.
In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags.
I went tobogganing with my sister and her friend, using those big industrial plastic sacks as sledges.
Rather than sledge the PM, you would be better to ask Milne how she will recover the money if the green fund fails.
It would have taken a sledgehammer to keep me off the pitch. The Sun
But for all its qualities, it wields a satirical sledgehammer. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the well-known sledgers of the earlier years had large walrus moustaches, which made movement of their lips imperceptible.
He was among the worst sledgers during the first phase of his career, and till the final legs of the captaincy, allowed his men to indulge in this menace.
Aussies are masters of the well-timed sledge.
The slope was getting steeper and their sledge was gaining momentum all the time.
Selby firefighter Paul Bennett said they used a sledgehammer to break down the garage door and reach the fire, which had broken out in a utility room.
Britain also has an ice sledge hockey team, but they failed to qualify for Sochi. Times, Sunday Times
He told a reporter he "must have great ears" when his sledge was repeated, but didn't deny the comment was made.
This must look like a pretty tasty menu for an Australian player looking to sledge the England batsmen as they walk to the crease. Times, Sunday Times
It is beyond sad, or depressing - it is a vicious slap across the mouth, a painful screaming, a well-placed sledgehammer blow to the abdomen.
They had a minimum of significant characters (often zero) and one big sledgehammer theme.
Your sledge is waiting, Madame," announced the newcomer. Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child
Jones has reconciled himself to being sledged a lot by the Aussies.
Who was the best sledger? Times, Sunday Times
I recently learned that Billy has been putting on a one-man science show, which includes laying down on a bed of nails and having someone break a cinderblock on his chest with a sledgehammer. The Port Discover Science Center
Blacksmiths hardies of various shapes, the anvil tool or blacksmiths double face sledges may also be used as hammering support. 4. Working techniques of hammering
Not too much imagery as such, just a hint of rawness with use of dumb-bells and sledgehammer to break the monotonous nature of gun-shot violence.
At one point we accidentally overturned a sledge and a trickle of brown liquid oozed out of the sledge onto the white snow.
His sledges went a little too far for commercial radio station Triple M, which terminated a live interview with the 54-year-old on Friday morning.
Endless banter was part of his game, but not the truculence and obscenities of the modern sledger.
Plus a guy gets his shoulder broken with a sledgehammer.
We armed ourselves with axes, crowbars, jemmies, metal poles, sledge hammers, a quart of paraffin and box of matches.
My deer vanished into the forest, pulling the empty sledge behind him. Times, Sunday Times
Going inside this diminutive raised room perched on a sledge is a surreal experience and one of those defining moments of a fieldwork trip. World's race for economic growth threatens Greenland's pure white wilderness
Use a sledgehammer style of attack and you're definitely going to have a hard time with the ‘avoid enemy detection’ objective.
Britain also has an ice sledge hockey team, but they failed to qualify for Sochi. Times, Sunday Times
Yet Robbins's mix of pile-driver satire and sledgehammer sentiment crushes this enthusiasm by making one thing appallingly clear: just because you are on the side of the angels, it doesn't mean you are any good.
The cash transit drivers were followed inside and attacked by two raiders with a sledgehammer and a crowbar on Friday. The Sun
Meanwhile, the bombastic score signposts plot points with sledgehammer subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
After a hard day's mushing, when I'd been thrown from the sledge several times, I sometimes wished the menu had included husky.
At Primrose Hill in north London there were plenty of sledgers scooting their heels along increasingly muddy slopes in an attempt to recreate Monday's magic.
A modern sledge is simply a expletive laden insult, designed to cause mental disintegration.
Steel wedges were driven into the fault and hammered with a sledge until the stone separated.
During one pause to rerig ropes for the lifting of the sledges over a thirty-foot wall of ice, made not at all easier by the passage of sledges in weeks past since the movement of the ice had tumbled a thousand new ice blocks into their path from the towering bergs on either side, Lieutenant Little took another temperature reading. The Terror
This simple action allowed us to measure the time it took for the wave produced by the sledgehammer to reach the geophone or to pass between geophones. The Elephant's Secret Sense
Though the famous corkscrew left crashed to its mark on Darcy's chin with all its old-time power, the psychological effect of its impotency was almost as unnerving as were Darcy's own sledgehammer blows.
At last all was ready, the boxes lashed on to the sledge while the dogs waited to dash down the hill with me for the last time. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
They had sledgehammered the door and it caved in.
There will also be reindeers and sledge dogs, penguins and seals to give a ‘feel’ of Antartica.
After we had made it through the rough sastrugi we entered a wide-open flat snow plain, almost perfect conditions for sledge travel.
These fleet-of-foot canines think nothing of sprinting round a four-mile trail at 18 miles an hour, dragging a sledge bearing their human ‘musher’.
Italy participated in ice sledge hockey for the first time.
Having partaken heartily of frozen pemmican, I stuffed my pocket, bundled the rest into a bag on the sledge, and started off in high glee, stimulated in body and mind.
The estuary and Khawr waterway have been combed by helicopters hauling mine detectors on sledges, and by minesweepers and minehunters, while Chatham's helicopter provided air support.
One was holding a sledge hammer and began hitting the security screen while another tried to smash an internal door.
Live it would often bring the set to an orgasmic Rock ‘n’ Roll climax, which it does here on the album with all the guitars and drums in the band driving the rhythms into your head with sledgehammer force.
A number of aspects can signify physical violence, but nothing matches the capability of this combination for sledgehammer brutality.
In January it emerged that the plan - codenamed "sledgehammer" - had been hatched at the highest levels of the military to plant bombs to destabilise the government. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Part of what makes this book so entertaining is the laughable impossibility of its nonmetaphorical goal: The author seems to have written this book with the hope that everyone in America would read it, agree with all its points, and literally destroy their television sets with sledgehammers. Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
Hence, I spent a good morning on Sunday sledgehammering the concrete fenceposts out of the front garden.
In Florence, Italy, a sledgehammer was the likely cause of destruction for a speed camera on the Florence-Pisa-Leghorn expressway. TheNewspaper
Sexual slurs about a player's wife are favoured weapons in the sledger's armoury.
That he takes a sledgehammer to the bathrooms that he's fitted, but not been paid for. Times, Sunday Times
So they paid builders 300 to take a sledgehammer to two partition walls. The Sun
Their guitars hammer away like sledges to anvils while the rhythm section is hot enough to melt steel!
Of all the guys who have switched uniforms this season, maybe the hardest to get used to will be Lynch, who personified the Bucs' defense with his sledgehammer style.
In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes.
Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Their guitars hammer away like sledges to anvils while the rhythm section is hot enough to melt steel!
Sledge gives the common soldier his just due in eloquent prose that explores the emotions and trauma associated with a brutal war and its consequences.
Bill hefted it off the shelf with a numb hand and with the other, took the sledgehammer that hung on the pegboard on the wall, its head suspended by two nails. Curb Appeal
It was an uplifting, exciting feeling to drive the Skidoo pulling only one sledge over a perfectly flat smooth surface.
She was hit with a sledgehammer. The Sun
Throughout his career, he wrote with clarity and an attention to detail, all the while showing the written word could be more effective as a pen knife than a sledgehammer.
This must look like a pretty tasty menu for an Australian player looking to sledge the England batsmen as they walk to the crease. Times, Sunday Times
In actual fact it was just a steep incline without any dangers from crevasses, but the incline was too much for the skidoos to pull the two heavy sledges, now laden with many fossil and rock samples.

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