How to Use hacksaw in a Sentence

hacksaw

noun
  • Beasley sawed through the steel bars in his cell with a hacksaw.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • One boy, a sophomore, even tries to cut off his feet with a hacksaw.
    — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Clamp the bar stock in the vise, place a drop of oil in the notch, and rest the hacksaw blade in it.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • Start with a small hacksaw, which can get into tough spots that larger handsaws can’t.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
  • Some repairs also may require a hand sander, a hacksaw, a nail bar and a level.
    — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2017
  • If necessary, cut the curtain rod to the right length with a junior hacksaw.
    — The Editors Of House Beautiful, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2015
  • Then, use a hacksaw to trim the protruding injection ports flush with the wall.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Enlarge / Want to blow up zombies and then slice their remains with a hacksaw?
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Also found in the dumpster was a sheer, hammer, wire snips, a hatchet, and a hacksaw with red or brown stains.
    — Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • He had been bound with duct tape, stabbed more than 20 times with a screwdriver and had his throat cut open with a hacksaw.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The top three blades can be used in either a standard-tension hacksaw or in a high-tension hacksaw.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Fortunately, the use of a hot wrench (oxy-acetylene torch) or a hacksaw will cure the problem in a jiffy.
    — Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There are modular saws that look a bit like a hacksaw, wherein the blade can be swapped out for other purposes.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2018
  • The original film had an infamous hacksaw scene, where Art tied up a young woman and sawed her in half.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Although a table saw, circular saw and hacksaw are all useful, they must be handled with caution.
    — Author: Daniel Bortz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Two friends playfully attack each other, brandishing a hacksaw and a cleaver.
    — Susan Delson, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • The whole production is elegant and tasteful to a fault, even when, in the second half, the revolvers and hacksaws come out.
    — Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 21 June 2017
  • The 6-inch base of this tree wasn’t going to be straightened with a hacksaw, but husband’s chainsaw was out of commission.
    — Karen Huppertz, ajc, 16 Dec. 2017
  • After the emergency hacksaw surgery on his hooves, Sherman barely moved.
    — Christopher McDougall, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2016
  • Hose down hacksaw and reciprocating saw blades that cut metal after the job is done and before storing the blade.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Johnston had shimmed out of his cell window – which was 1 foot wide and 4 feet tall – after cutting the center bar with a hacksaw blade.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Put down your hacksaw and pick up the P590, a cordless metal-cutting solution priced for the rest of us.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The Nomade’s movement was skeletonized entirely by hand using a hacksaw.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There is a now-notorious murder scene, a hacksaw scene, in Part I that everyone walks away talking about.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022
  • This was a major operation involving three people, a cold chisel, a hacksaw, a crowbar, and an angle grinder.
    — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Police also reportedly found bloody trash bags, a hatchet and a hacksaw at a waste facility about an hour from the family's home.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • It was built specifically to withstand a number of cutting attempts, including hacksaws, bolt saws, cutters, and grinders.
    — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Those items included sections of a Tyvek suit, pieces of rug, unknown tissue, slippers, and both the blade and handle of a hacksaw, as well as the head and handle of a hatchet.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Andrew Fone, FOXNews.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Tests of 11 samples taken from slaughter tables, knives, hacksaws, transport trucks and other spots showed that eight were positive for the resistant strain.
    — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2019
  • Vast expanses of aluminum panels and budget glass, slabs that look like they were drawn with a hacksaw, façades checkered with air conditioners, stretches of dead street frontage—the whole neighborhood looks like a first draft.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025

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