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Axe
"Axe" in a Sentence (25 examples)
I get the feeling you still have an axe to grind. If you've got something to say come on out and say it.
He has had absolutely no part in the conspiracy; it was not he, but his brother, who had an axe to grind against the government.
She always has some axe to grind.
The axe does not go to a humble neck.
Many revolutionaries have been beheaded by the axe of a guillotine.
Until now I've never used an axe.
Wasn't it Kafka who wrote that a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us?
The handle of an axe is Death to its own tribe.
An axe in the house keeps the carpenter away.
The axe is very important in American culture.
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His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
the Beeching Axe
The tractor plant is slated for the axe.
I had a job in the great North Woods Workin' as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the axe just fell
But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945.
Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.
A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.
The government announced its plans to axe public spending.
The broadcaster axed the series because far fewer people than expected watched it.
He got axed in the last round of firings.
On Wednesday, GSMA, which organises the congress, was forced to admit it would have to axe this year’s event after more than 40 companies pulled out citing health and safety concerns.
The Department for Transport axed TfL's central grant in 2015, when Boris Johnson was London mayor.
Axe and it ſhalbe geven you. Seke and ye ſhall fynd / Knocke and it ſhalbe opened vnto you.
I axe you—have I said one word about that little matter to-day?
I axe him to sit down and drink some of my wine, but he says no thanks, he just come to axe me a question.
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