hammered

Example Sentences

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UCLA’s limitations were on full, frustrating display once more against the Buckeyes as it got hammered on the boards and gave up too many big runs in having its two-game winning streak snapped.

From Los Angeles Times

English champions Bath hammered Edinburgh 63-10 on Friday and the Scottish club are waiting for the result at Kingsholm to see if they advance.

From Barron's

I thought back on the part I played in the fortune-teller case, as the book peddler in the Maroney adventure, and as the haunting, hammered bank teller in the Drysdale affair.

From Literature

Everyone from Chipotle to Starbucks has hammered pizza purveyors, and the companies—perhaps feeling betrayed by fickle consumers—do not seem to know how to respond.

From The Wall Street Journal

She eyed him suspiciously, and Boaz’s heart hammered in his chest.

From Literature