(1) It has recently been jigsawed together and displayed for only the second time in its history after it was pickaxed from a wall of Keynsham railway station in 1851.
(2) At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.
(3) Mandla Mandela called a press conference in Mvezo village a day after the sheriff of the local court used a pickaxe to force open the gates of his homestead so the bones of Mandela's three late children, including his father, Makgatho Mandela, who died in 2005, could be exhumed.
(4) The vast government compound in Pangkal Pinang is built on a reclaimed mine, and even here men with pickaxes can be seen digging when officials aren't looking.
(5) They are, as the builders of Timbuktu say, “God’s gift to the poor for building.” The only expense involved in collecting the material – which is cut from the ground with pickaxes, rather like peat – is the amount charged by local tip-truck operators and their labourers.
(6) Smoke billowed from vehicles nearby, and men used pickaxes and whatever tools they could find to try to tear down the walls of the mosque.
(7) The Scottish tax adviser said his hands and feet were caned and beaten with a pickaxe handle.
(8) israel jerusalem unrest At one stage the Guardian witnessed a group of masked youths with pickaxes attacking the railway stop.
(9) Under a pounding midday sun, about a dozen men and women watched as an older man plunged a pickaxe into the heavy soil.
(10) Eriu says Amref gave out sanitation kits, which included pickaxes, spades, a wheelbarrow and a hoe.
(11) Angry after being shouted at by Konrad during the exercise, Kenyon responded by plunging a pickaxe into his skull.
(12) If you work slowly, he says, “your characters will take a pickaxe to everything you thought you knew.” Klay’s interest in (and deference to) experiences of the war at odds with his own is very much part of his project.
Pickaxe
Definition:
(n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has recently been jigsawed together and displayed for only the second time in its history after it was pickaxed from a wall of Keynsham railway station in 1851.
(2) At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.
(3) Mandla Mandela called a press conference in Mvezo village a day after the sheriff of the local court used a pickaxe to force open the gates of his homestead so the bones of Mandela's three late children, including his father, Makgatho Mandela, who died in 2005, could be exhumed.
(4) The vast government compound in Pangkal Pinang is built on a reclaimed mine, and even here men with pickaxes can be seen digging when officials aren't looking.
(5) They are, as the builders of Timbuktu say, “God’s gift to the poor for building.” The only expense involved in collecting the material – which is cut from the ground with pickaxes, rather like peat – is the amount charged by local tip-truck operators and their labourers.
(6) Smoke billowed from vehicles nearby, and men used pickaxes and whatever tools they could find to try to tear down the walls of the mosque.
(7) The Scottish tax adviser said his hands and feet were caned and beaten with a pickaxe handle.
(8) israel jerusalem unrest At one stage the Guardian witnessed a group of masked youths with pickaxes attacking the railway stop.
(9) Under a pounding midday sun, about a dozen men and women watched as an older man plunged a pickaxe into the heavy soil.
(10) Eriu says Amref gave out sanitation kits, which included pickaxes, spades, a wheelbarrow and a hoe.
(11) Angry after being shouted at by Konrad during the exercise, Kenyon responded by plunging a pickaxe into his skull.
(12) If you work slowly, he says, “your characters will take a pickaxe to everything you thought you knew.” Klay’s interest in (and deference to) experiences of the war at odds with his own is very much part of his project.