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How to use the word HATCHET in a Sentence?

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These sanctions are completely unprecedented in their strength, it really is taking a hatchet to Russian financial markets and the ability to move money around.

Julia Friedlander

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've never seen a presidential book that's really a hatchet job of other people.

John Reznikoff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Allosaurus might not have been as big as T. rex, but it was no slouch as an apex predator, it was able to hyper-extend its jaw for a super-wide gape. It was a hatchet feeder like a hawk, meaning it would chop into prey with its head. It had long arms with grasping claws and a strong bite force. Track sites suggest it might have been a long-distance hunter that would follow herds for miles to pick off prey.

Stephanie Drumheller

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Let me make something clear to Trump and his hatchet men and the special interests funding his attacks against me, i'm not going anywhere. You're not going to destroy me. And you're not going to destroy my family. I don't care how much money you spend or how dirty the attacks get.

Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The President's totally unqualified, and The President only qualification seems to be that The President wants The President to be the hatchet man to destroy the Mueller investigation.

Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We encourage people to really bury the hatchet, so to speak, so they can move forward to a brighter and better future, it’s better than sitting home and eating a gallon of ice cream.

Trish Oliphant

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We buried the hatchet. That was political stuff, i have found in talking with him, that there's a lot more alignment, philosophically and spiritually, than I ever thought that there was.

Ben Carson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was to drive my Jeep and bring my cell phone, GPS, clothes, a gun, tents, sleeping bags, hatchet, fishing poles, and money from a package I never picked up, after I picked them up, the plan was to drive to my home and Inmate Matt was going to kill 'the glitch.' Inmate Matt referred to Lyle as 'the glitch.' After Inmate Matt killed Lyle, we were going to drive somewhere. I can't remember where we were going to go, but I know I was told it was around six-seven hours away.

Lyle Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Kin Hubbard

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Carry Nation

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Sydney Harris

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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