Hammered Sentence Examples

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  • These he hammered and shaped and fitted to the horse's feet.

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  • In the Ligore ware the hammered ground-work is inlaid with a black composition of sulphides of baser metals which throws up the pattern with distinctness.

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  • Her heart hammered in her ears, her eyes watering once more.

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  • From the latter came the bronze gates with hammered reliefs, which are now in the British Museum.

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  • Unlike ionic solids, metals are very malleable, they can be readily bent, pressed or hammered into shape.

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  • Warmth flooded up her neck and her heart hammered against her ribs.

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  • The sight of the child hammered home his desire for a future with Jenn.

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  • It is brittle, and when hammered readily breaks up into a powder of angular grains.

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  • They've been in a steady downtrend since Mid-late 2005, and getting hammered further today.

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  • Creepy horror film from 1919 with live music on hammered dulcimer, what more can you ask for!

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  • Before take off from England I'd hammered those pins in so tight that it would have taken a hacksaw to get them out.

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  • In no time at all it seemed I had reached a small recess with an old piton hammered into a crack.

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  • The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

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  • We hammered Hastings at Marston Road only to drop 2 points to a late sucker punch.

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  • A great antique hammered pewter tankard, with a glass bottom, dating to circa 1930.

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  • The UK seems to be desperately trying to deal with two conflicting viewpoints suddenely hammered together.

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  • To what end, pray, is so much stone hammered?

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  • Southwestern hardware can range from hammered metal to intricate western and Native American motifs like those used in carved furniture pieces.

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  • The Hammered Copper Top Dining Table is a stunning round table from the Casual Lifestyle category that comfortably seats four people.

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  • What makes this table unique and impressive is the hammered copper finish on the top.

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  • Hammered bands with textured ripples or geometric patterns across the entire surface.

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  • For example, an elaborately knotted Celtic design done in gold and platinum conveys an air of elegance and refinement, while a textured or hammered swirl can emit more casual vibes.

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  • The story, as told by Forbes.com, "In December 1999, one of the most complicated watches ever made became the most expensive watch ever sold when it was hammered down for $11 million at Sotheby's."

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  • Silver has been molded and hammered to create a variety of jewelry, cutlery, serving pieces and lamps for centuries.

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  • Once you've hammered that out, start your equipment search online, always checking third party reviews for the equipment and brand before spending your money.

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  • I hammered out stories and even rough novel manuscripts on old typewriters, and I started submitting to magazines (and getting rejected) when I was 12.

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  • Once all of these details are hammered out, it's time to go looking online for the website builder that will best suit your needs.

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  • I can't imagine trying to sleep with just a couple of little steel pegs hammered into the rock the only thing holding me from a couple of thousand foot drop!

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  • The early authorities represent the Stigmata not as bleeding wounds, the holes as it were of the nails, but as fleshy excrescences resembling in form and colour the nails, the head on the palm of the hand, and on the back as it were a nail hammered down.

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  • The coalitions, once so brittle as to break at the first strain, had now been hammered into solidity by his blows.

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  • The bodies (or so much of them as ever existed, as only the fore parts remained) were hammered and wrought, like the bodies of the Egyptian figures.

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  • If, on the one hand, huge stones are transported hundreds of miles from sea-shore or river-bed where, in the lapse of long centuries, waves and cataracts have hammered them into strange shapes, and if the harmonizing of their various colors and the adjustment of their forms to environment are studied with profound subtlety, so the training and tending of the trees and shrubs that keep them company require much taste and much toil.

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  • The manifold plate is then heavily punched from one side, so that the opposite face protrudes in broken blisters, which are then hammered down until each becomes a centre of wave propagation.

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  • The pure metal is silver-white in colour, is very ductile, and becomes remarkably hard when hammered, a diamond drill making little impression upon it.

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  • It is regarded with great reverence, owing to a legend that the inner band of iron has been hammered out of one of the nails of the true cross.

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  • The artificers in gold and silver melted the metals by means of a reed-blowpipe and cast them solid or hollow, and were also skilled in hammered work and chasing, as some fine specimens remain to show, though the famous animals modelled with gold and silver, fur, feathers and scales have disappeared.

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  • Celtic altar-bell of hammered iron, known as the "Ronnell bell."' Such is the odour of sanctity of this venerable church that there is an old local saying that "to be thrice prayed for in the kirk of Birnie will either mend or end ye."

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  • If an iron ship be swung when upright for deviation, and the mean horizontal and vertical magnetic forces at the compass positions be also observed in different parts of the world, mathematical analysis shows that the deviations are caused partly by the permanent magnetism of hard iron, partly by the transient induced magnetism of soft iron both horizontal and vertical, and in a lesser degree by iron which is neither magnetically hard nor soft, but which becomes magnetized in the same manner as hard iron, though it gradually loses its magnetism on change of conditions, as, for example, in the case of a ship, repaired and hammered in dock, steaming in an opposite direction at sea.

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  • A, Round bar to be hammered.

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  • It may be readily hammered, but cannot be drawn.

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  • These are no longer cast but hammered into shape, and decoration is elaborate curvilixear rather than simple rectilinear, the forms and character of the ornamentation of the northern European weapons resembling in some respects Roman arms, while in others they are peculiar and evidently representative of northern art.

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  • In the most primitive method thin plates of bronze were hammered over a wooden core, rudely cut into the required shape, the core serving the double purpose of giving shape to and strengthening the thin metal.

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  • A further development in the art of hammered work consisted in laying the metal plate on a soft FIG.

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  • Of the two chief methods of working bronze, gold and silver, it is probable that the hammer process was first practised, at least for statues, among the Greeks, who themselves attributed the invention of the art of hollow casting to Theodorus and Rhoecus, both Samian sculptors, about the middle of the 6th century B.C. Pausanias specially mentions that one of the oldest statues he had ever seen was a large figure of Zeus in Sparta, made of hammered bronze plates riveted together.

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  • With increased skill in large castings, and the discovery of the use of cores, by which the fluid bronze was poured into a mere skin-like cavity, hammered or repousse work was only used in the case of small objects in which lightness was desirable, or for the precious metals in order to avoid large expenditure of metal.

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  • If an object has to be beaten into concave form from a flat thin sheet, the outer portions must be hammered until they occupy smaller dimensions than on the flat sheet.

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  • The extreme tenuity of objects which are hammered, drawn or rolled cannot for obvious reasons be attained by casting.

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  • The ancient wootz, and the products of the native furnaces of Africa are first cast, then hammered out thin.

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  • Pasubio was the key of the situation, and the Austrians hammered unceasingly against Bertotti's right wing.

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  • For a long fortnight Dankl hammered at the line south of the Posina and east of the Val Canaglia, but could not gain a yard.

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  • The scorifier is taken from the muffle in a pair of tongs and the contents poured into a mould, the lead forming a button in the bottom while the slag floats on top. When cold, the contents of the mould are taken out and the lead button hammered into the form of a cube, the slag, which is glassy and brittle, separating readily from the metal, which is then ready for cupellation.

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  • The resulting lead button hammered P into shape and carefully cleansed from slag is ready for the cupel.

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  • When cold, the button is hammered, cleaned carefully from slag, and weighed.

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  • There were four boilers made of thin hammered copper and weighing a little more than 7 lb each; these occupied the middle portion of the fish.

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  • The kings futile activity led to ever more frequent gatherings of the Great Council, in which the theory of the constitution was gradually hammered out by countless debates between the sovereign and his subjects.

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  • It means the shiny arc of reflected light on a chrome bumper instead of the smith's blacking on a hammered iron rail.

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  • Some top cymbals are hand hammered by skilled craftsmen who have learned a craft passed down over the centuries.

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  • Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.

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  • He rushed at the barefooted Frenchman and, before the latter had time to draw his sword, knocked him off his feet and hammered him with his fists.

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  • A wrought iron hanging pot rack filled with cast iron and hammered copper pots adds warmth and charm to a rustic log cabin kitchen.

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  • Other types of finishes can include the hammered effect as though it's been fashioned by hand.

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  • For this reason, a hammered copper sink is the perfect vehicle for bringing old world detail and charm to the home.

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  • Copper has a rich luster and beauty when hammered into the shape of a sink.

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  • Hammered copper sinks that have been given a dark patina are the perfect complement to a stone bathroom or kitchen design.

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  • Metal rods can be round, square, flat or have a hammered shape.

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  • Hammered copper, bronze and rustic finishes are available from several companies including Watermark and Newport Brass.

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  • Khloe and Lamar have no pre-nup yet as the details are still being hammered out by the not yet legally married couple.

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  • For example, a hammered copper or stone vessel sink pairs nicely with a farmhouse decor while concrete or glass is the modern interior's counterpart.

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  • One stunning example of the various double-bowl kitchen sinks they have is this Double-Bowl Hammered Copper Apron Farm Sink.

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  • With an intricate vine-and-leaf design on the apron front, and a hammered copper interior, this sink is a beautiful complement for a country-style kitchen.

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  • This Double-Bowl Bottom-Rounded Hammered Copper Kitchen Sink is crafted from 16-gauge copper and is hand-hammered with a technique that copper-smiths have been using for centuries.

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  • Most bracelet designs include natural images hammered into the metal, including plumeria, hibiscus and sea shells.

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  • The only difference was the boards hammered over each of the windows, and the weapons sitting beside Mrs. Watson's rocking chair and stacked on the couch.

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  • When dawn outlined the boards hammered across the windows, she rose.

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  • The sheet was finally hammered and dried in the sun.

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  • Thin wire was hammered out, but there is no ancient instance of drawn wire.

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