battleaxe
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
When we think of comedy and marriage, we probably think of “’er indoors” jokes: all those Les Dawson-era gags about henpecked husbands and battleaxe in-laws.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2016
Some of his most striking imagery was reserved for Margaret Thatcher, variously depicted during her premiership as a battleaxe, a blind automaton and a bloody-fanged pterodactyl.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2013
But the performance everyone on set is talking about is Vanessa Redgrave's: she plays Volumnia, the mother who raised Coriolanus as warrior for Rome – more nuanced and less of a battleaxe than is customary.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2010
With all this, it must be said of them that they were marvelous good men in the field, dexterous archers, and powerful with the battleaxe.
From Washington Irving by Charles Dudley Warner
And raising his dreaded weapon, the mighty battleaxe with its lance-like shaft, he stepped to the head of the "wedge," Behind him Aligern, his cousin, and old Hildebrand.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn
