1. After hammering out the shoes, he nailed three of them on the horse.

2. I saw young ones, eyes downcast, dutifully hammering out license plates and leather purses.

3. The meetings are not meant to serve as glorified works councils, hammering out grand agreements on petty feuds.

4. 24 Beijing and Abbott are now hammering out the price, which Hao said was still too high for China and he called on the company to pay heed to its "social responsibility."

5. "What was it?" I don't think I'd ever heard him talk like this before. He spoke like he was at the smithy, hammering out a piece of steel. His voice was harder than it ever had been.