How to Use hammer and sickle in a Sentence

hammer and sickle

noun
  • The main stage is adorned with giant red flags flanking the hammer and sickle.
    — Brendan Scott, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Many in the crowd waved socialist-red flags — some adorned with a hammer and sickle.
    — James Angelos, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The next day, the account posted a hammer and sickle crossed out by a bloody red circle.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • But this store used to sell a vodka that had a hammer and sickle on the bottle, and no one raised an eyebrow at that.
    — James Lileks, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • His brown suede belt bore the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • The spray paint also included a picture of a hammer and sickle.
    — Fox News, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Some others on the right had claimed that the tattoo was of a communist hammer and sickle symbol.
    — Daniel Dale, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
  • There’s a hammer and sickle on the front of the New York Stock Exchange.
    — Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • There’s a Porsche dealership near the city center that still has a hammer and sickle statue outside.
    — Niree Noel, Allure, 27 July 2018
  • Leave aside the double standard here — how many hipsters are there with the hammer and sickle or Mao’s red star on their T-shirts?
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Do not follow the advice of Twitter communists and stage a rent strike with hammer and sickle in hand, tempting as that might be.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Soldiers marched in goose step under a red arch emblazoned with the hammer and sickle as cannons fired 100 rounds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • Just inside Kachka’s door on Grand Avenue, a hammer and sickle are bolted on the wall.
    — Robert Reid, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Transnistria is the only place in the world whose national symbol is still the Soviet hammer and sickle.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • One featured a drawing of Sessions's face over a Soviet hammer and sickle.
    — Leah Sottile, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • On a rainy day, the group dressed in Red Army outfits, huddled together to hold a red flag with the hammer and sickle and smiled for the camera.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Erected in 1981, the monument depicts a woman with a sword in one hand and a shield embossed with a hammer and sickle in the other.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • When the lights went out, Shining Path sometimes lit torches in the shape of a giant hammer and sickle in the mountains above Lima.
    — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • Purporting to be based in San Francisco, its profile picture shows a blond woman wearing a fur hat with a hammer and sickle badge.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Communist Party of India had planted its hammer and sickle flag at the tea estate entrance.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Transnistria has its own flag, complete with a Soviet-style hammer and sickle, and a separate identity from the rest of Moldova.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Even her last public appearance — her funeral — was marked by the Communist Party hammer and sickle flag that adorned her coffin.
    — Isabella Gomez, Teen Vogue, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Another light display shone the Communist hammer and sickle onto clouds over Shenzhen, a flashily commercial city in the south.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • The disguised antisemitism that for so long had been as ubiquitous a feature of Soviet society as the hammer and sickle started to shed its covers.
    — Margarita Gokun Silver, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The hammer and sickle of communism can still be seen, but they are far outnumbered by Nike swooshes and the interlocking C’s of the Chanel logo.
    — Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Transnistria has its own flag, complete with a Soviet-style hammer and sickle, and its own makeshift currency that partly consists of plastic coins reminiscent of a board game.
    — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Swayed by the allure of easy money, his successor, Joseph Stalin, revived the old tsarist vodka monopoly, rebranded with a hammer and sickle.
    — Mark Lawrence Schrad, Time, 20 July 2021
  • Opposition parties distributed placards lampooning Lam with the communist hammer and sickle over her eye.
    — Washington Post, The Denver Post, 9 June 2019
  • The game starts with a full-screen image of the hammer and sickle designed by Michal Hlaváč, who was 14 at that time, and worked with his younger brother, Juraj, who was only 10.
    — Andrada Fiscutean, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
  • And a shield across the eagle’s chest features five instances of the hammer and sickle, a communist symbol associated with the Russian Revolution.
    — Sarah Mervosh, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019

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