hammers away
Example Sentences
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True to her workhorse reputation, Ms. Wu is trying to avoid distractions as she hammers away at her campaign agenda, focused on “racial, economic and climate justice.”
From New York Times • May 21, 2023
It goes back to a story Homa shared on a “No Laying Up” podcast four years ago about a stonecutter who hammers away on a huge boulder and shatters it with the 101st strike.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022
He also hammers away at the “theory” by taking aim at post-Casey decisions such as Lawrence v.
From Washington Post • May 5, 2022
Nietzsche’s 1878 book, “Human, All Too Human,” his inaugural assault on Wagner and Romantic metaphysics, hammers away at the word Mitleid, considering it an instrument of weakness.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
In his spare time our father hammers away at the interior of the house.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
