How to Use hatchet in a Sentence

hatchet

noun
  • If there are hatchets to be buried, then let’s get to work.
    — Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The post’s steel head was buried in the truck cab like a hatchet.
    — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 17 May 2018
  • This has been a good year for burying the hatchet.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The two hug it out and appear to bury the hatchet, both on screen and off.
    — Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
  • Phoenix police shot and killed a man who was armed with a hatchet and a knife.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Phoenix police shot and killed a man who was armed with a hatchet and a knife.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Her aim was to bury the hatchet in a tiny bull’s-eye, 12 feet away.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
  • For dessert, hand each kid a hatchet, shove them all outside, and lock the doors.
    — Kate Sidley, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The hatchet had fallen with the soft sound of dirt filling a hole.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Flinging hatchets and paint are good ways to work up an appetite, eh?
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The two seemed to bury the hatchet and have been taking things slow in private.
    — Caroline Bell, StyleCaster, 11 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a food fight, an accident with a hatchet, and a fire.
    — Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 23 Nov. 2022
  • His knife is hefty enough to use as a wood-cutting hatchet and fine enough to fashion snares.
    — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Chucking a hatchet and burying it in the soft wood of a target is just the best.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Will the two finally bury the hatchet?
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Officers arrived and tried to get the man to drop the hatchet.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
  • They had both been bludgeoned to death with a sharp object, believed to be a hatchet.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Seaman hit her husband with a hatchet and stabbed him with a knife more than 20 times.
    — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Salvadore, 13, had an arm bruised by a blow from the hatchet or the butt of the revolver.
    — James Karst, NOLA.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Police were unable to locate the hatchet or find the suspects and their car.
    — Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • The back of the head appears to then have been struck by a series of forceful blows from a small hatchet or cleaver.
    — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
  • So Sheldon schleps down to Texas in hopes of burying the hatchet.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 3 May 2018
  • Police said the suspect then struck the victim in the face with the hammer end of the hatchet.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Saia then pulled a hatchet out of his backpack and swung at the victim, striking him in the head.
    — oregonlive.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Closest to the fence was a pig man with a rubber hand, who was gripping a hatchet with his flesh-and-blood hand.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • The back-and-forth ended with a joint press conference to publicly bury the hatchet.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 9 Aug. 2020
  • As of now, Brooklyn doesn’t seem keen on burying the hatchet with his parents.
    — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Like hatchet clams, root bacteria can purge sulfur.
    — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Pound these curls with the back of the hatchet to break up the wood fibers and separate the smallest slivers.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Today, Leonard and his associates seemed to have buried the hatchet.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026

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