“If you just start banging on it with a hammer, you'll probably damage the surrounding tiles.”

“After a series of personal failures, the constant hammering of self-doubt left him utterly defeated.”

“The women's team experienced a hammering at the hands of their archrivals.”

“Usually, the toolmaker started with a large cobble, probably picked out of a stream bed, and flaked it with a hammerstone into the required shape.”

“The hammerstone shown in Fig. 41 was found on the surface near the head of Priest Rapids.”

“The rim of the bowl is flattened, and this flat surface resembles that of the part of a hammerstone used for pecking.”

“He later became known as the Hammerman Poet after his work as a hammerman in the steam hammer shop at the works.”

“I cannot understand whether he attacks me as a wriggler or a hammerer, but I am very sure that a deal of wriggling has to be done.”

“There are hammerstones, cores, and flakes associated with the manufacturing of Oldowan assemblages, as well as choppers and scrapers.”

“Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker.”

“Fig. 43 illustrates one of these hammerstones, found on the surface at Kennewick.”

“He latched on with an independent league team and good-naturedly endured a couple of seasons of hammerings before surrendering.”

“Pigeon Funk started not unlike those famous chocolate and peanut butter cups, when Sutekh's brazen dancefloor hammerings and Kit Clayton's dementedly soulful caresses suddenly found themselves melted in one another's arms.”

“There are unlikely to be any real hammerings but the weakest side in the tournament is probably Equatorial Guinea, only there because their government has the oil revenues to stage a tournament at short notice.”