How to Use hammer into in a Sentence

hammer into

verb
  • Forged sets are made from a single piece of metal that’s heated and hammered into shape.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
  • Through the years, climbers began adopting devices like pitons that could be hammered into cracks and used to prevent lethal falls.
    — Mary Beth Skylis, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The standard climbing equipment of the time included pitons, iron spikes that climbers hammered into the rock to hold their ropes.
    — Tony Biasotti, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This gyuto is hand-forged and features the Nashiji (pear skin) pattern, hammered into the steel to prevent food from sticking when slicing.
    — Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 May 2026
  • Xbox is in the worst spot right now, its already horribly low sales before any of this happened, now hammered into dust by unavoidable price increases.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Small nuggets of gold had been hammered into round disks and sewn onto King Tut’s clothes to enable him to carry some of his wealth into the afterlife.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Engineers designed the dams, which are generally made of large logs hammered into the earth with branches and other material.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There are a few other freakish laugh-out-loud moments, although there are also times when the metaphor Bergholm keeps hammering into our skulls becomes repetitive.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
  • His company's main product—pitons, the metal spikes climbers hammered into rock faces—was literally destroying the granite walls of Yosemite.
    — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But the coaches clearly have tried to hammer into Dart’s head that there is a difference between taking chances on conversion downs rather than on first and second downs, from a risk-reward perspective.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
  • Following the great drummer trade war of summer 2025, Freese, who was unexpectedly fired from the Foo Fighters after two years of service, quickly got hammered into the Nine Inch Nails as their newest kitman.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2026

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