How to Use pickax in a Sentence

pickax

noun
  • Need a bigger grip on your mower, weed eater, shovel, or pickax?
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • The burglar then ran toward a park behind the home, dropping his pickax in the process.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Use a shovel or pickax to dig below ground level to remove the root system.
    — Sarah Everett, The Spruce, 11 May 2026
  • Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The charges include allegations that a pickax and a knife were used as deadly weapons.
    — Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The family trudged up the hill to the tap-tap of a pickax digging out the grave where Mushtaq would be buried.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Harden is taking a pickax to every traditional idea about how the game should be played.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2019
  • One protester repeatedly swung a pickax at the base of the statue.
    — CBS News, 16 June 2020
  • The men used shovels and pickaxes to dig down through the debris, coughing as their eyes watered and their bodies shrouded in clouds of ash.
    — NBC News, 7 June 2018
  • But Nicholas' uncle missed the funeral and, instead, got a pickax and broke the stone's hold on the ground in time for the interment.
    — cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • All players carry a pickax to chop down trees or other objects for building materials to create their own forts.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Often there would be forty kids running around the area—washing pottery, sifting buckets, and pounding the earth with hoes and pickaxes.
    — Rachel Poser, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • At one point, Joe slings it over his shoulder, like the Seven Dwarfs toting their pickaxes on the way back from the mine.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The pickax may be outdoors, but a formal gap still separates artifact from audience.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • Activists in green overalls used a pickax to dig holes in the road near the farmhouse, while others carried steel girders and concrete to block vehicles.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Still, there is a feeling around the league that Hammon could be closer than ever from taking a pickax to another glass ceiling.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 June 2021
  • Late last month, hours after a man destroyed the star with a pickax, a fierce brawl ensued, leaving one person kicked in the head and another bleeding from the face.
    — Samantha Schmidt, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
  • West Virginia is so strongly associated with coal that the state flag features a miner with pickax over his shoulder.
    — Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 20 July 2017
  • Using a pickax and their hands to shift through rubble, the explorers—who didn’t set out in search of denim specifically—pull pair after pair of jeans from the dirt.
    — Erika Mailman, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Hike in with a pickax, dig a hole a few inches deep, and place the sharp end of the node into that hole, making sure the spike containing the geophone is completely covered.
    — Lauren Steele, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Hearing their cries as the cloud of dust dispersed, neighbors and nearby workers rushed in with pickaxes, shovels and ladders and rescued them all from the rubble.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • According to Richman, the original artwork had used a weapon that much more closely resembled a pickax.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • That weekend, more than two million Berliners streamed across the border, some scaling the wall or smashing it with sledgehammers and pickaxes.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2019
  • One depicts an industrial miner in hard hat, headlamp and boots; another a shoeless, shirtless man in ragged shorts holding a pickax.
    — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Investigators believe Wright first broke into a nearby home on Pearl Street and stole two vests and a pickax.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The site has been backfilled with tons of earth, mosaics have been removed for conservation, trowels and pickaxes and shade tents have been packed away, and the students and staff have moved on.
    — National Geographic, 5 July 2016
  • After the ceremony, each guest was given a handwritten note from the couple on cards embossed with the image of a miner carrying a pickax and a shovel.
    — Lois Smith Brady, New York Times, 5 July 2019
  • The Wall was actually breached by exultant Berliners who chipped away at the wall with pickaxes, demolishing parts of it in the process.
    — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2019
  • On a recent muggy afternoon in southern India, Earappa Bawge hacked at the ground with a pickax, his white shirt pasted to his back.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Trump supporters had gathered around his new Walk of Fame star Thursday night to honor the president after his old star got taken out by a man with a pickax.
    — Chris Perez, Fox News, 27 July 2018

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