Sledgehammer

//ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmə//

"Sledgehammer" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Something really should be done about the problem, but this is cracking a nut with a sledgehammer.

Don't crack a nut with a sledgehammer.

The head of a sledgehammer can weigh anywhere from 1 kilogram to 9 kilograms.

You don't need a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

The perpetrator used a sledgehammer to smash his way through reinforced glass doors.

Isn't that like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

Isn't that a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

They wanted to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

A sledgehammer breaks glass but forges steel.

I used a sledgehammer to make a hole in the wall.

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These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.

Some lawmakers were so incensed that they even invited the news media to watch the sledgehammering of the Japanese company's products on the Capitol's steps.

She’s trying to piece together shards of precious pottery gleefully sledgehammered by a delegation led by the Taliban’s minister of culture, who deemed the world’s greatest collection of Central Asian artifacts un-Islamic.

Promising new treatments avoid the sledgehammer approach of traditional chemotherapy in two key ways."

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