Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pick-axe? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
You hack away with a pick-axe, rewarded only by a few flying chips from the unyielding rock.
He started with only his hand-saw, wire clippers, and hammer, but soon he brought a pick-axe and chain saw to speed up the process.
It is generally a wader of the rocky shore and uses its short pick-axe bill to lever up small stones so as to feed upon sandhoppers, small crabs and molluscs that lie beneath.
Examples from Classical Literature
It has its mandibles for a pick-axe and its tarsi, armed with tiny claws, for rakes.
As for you, Benjamin Gunn,' says they, 'here's a musket,' they says, 'and a spade, and pick-axe.
On accounts of this and his dark looks has often dreamed as she see him take a pick-axe from his pocket and split Johnny's head.
Valliday was high on drink and drugs at the time of the attack in which he battered the ex-IRA prisoner with weapons including a pick-axe handle.
Griffiths, wielding a pick-axe handle, was standing five feet from him.
