HATCHET in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for HATCHET, such as:

1. Magua took the hatchet to color it with blood.
2. He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
3. The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
4. We split the ball open with the hatchet, and there was a spool in it.
5. , who feared the dagger at his breast, and whose head was cleft with a hatchet.

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 Meanings and Examples of HATCHET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hatchet
 n.  short ax used to chop wood
Classic Sentence:
1  We split the ball open with the hatchet, and there was a spool in it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
2  The carter ran up and struck at her again with his hatchet; but away she flew, and the blow fell upon the second horse and killed him on the spot.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
3  , who feared the dagger at his breast, and whose head was cleft with a hatchet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
4  Listen," repeated the Indian, resuming his earnest attitude; "when his English and French fathers dug up the hatchet, Le Renard struck the war-post of the Mohawks, and went out against his own nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  Magua took the hatchet to color it with blood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  Mr. Thomas Lanman, of St. Michael's, killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  One cut with a hatchet, and there results a nose; another such cut with a hatchet, and there materialises a pair of lips; two thrusts with a drill, and there issues a pair of eyes.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
9  He had within his reach his pistols and carbine, and Ali, standing near him, held one of the small Arabian hatchets, whose form has not varied since the Crusades.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
10  As for the tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm, through his emissaries, with Indian brevity, that their hatchets were dull, and time was necessary to sharpen them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
11  They were encompassed by fifty naked Oreillons, armed with bows and arrows, with clubs and flint hatchets.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
Example Sentence:
1  He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
2  The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.