sledge hammer in English

noun
1
a large, heavy hammer used for such jobs as breaking rocks and driving in fence posts.
We succeeded in moving some rocks, breaking up several large ones with sledgehammers before we broke the handles on Dave and Stan's largest hammers.
verb
1
hit with a sledgehammer.
They had sledgehammered the door and it caved in.
noun
verb

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1. That car was smashed by a bat, a lead pipe, maybe even a sledge hammer.

2. As a result, they act in the manner of the proverbial sledge-hammer to crack a nut.

3. If you've ever watched a construction worker in Shanghai swing a bamboo-handled sledge hammer, you know. Bamboo is tough.

4. Sudarshan ' s desire to minimise sectarian conflict is understandable but his remedy is sledge - hammer and his tone too righteous .

5. Apollo soon realizes that, although Rocky does not have his skill, he could deliver crippling, sledge-hammer like punches and is stubbornly determined to keep fighting.

6. "The force of a mini ball or piece of shell striking any solid portion of a person is astonishing; it comes like a blow from a sledge hammer, and the recipient finds himself sprawling on the ground before he is conscious of being hit; then he feels about for the wound, the Benumbing blow deadening sensation for a few moments.