hammer into
phrasal verb
hammered into; hammering into; hammers into
: to force (something) to be learned very well by (someone) by repeating it again and again
They are constantly trying to hammer good manners into their children.
She hammered it into me that I could succeed.
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Humphrey is a longtime member of LMPD and said identifying a target before shooting is part of the basic rules that are routinely hammered into officers.
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Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
The film plays around with both vampire and witch mythology, which eventually leads to a spiked mask being hammered into a woman’s face.
—B.j. Colangelo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
Witnesses said the bounce house had been secured by stakes hammered into the ground, according to the station.
—Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
The district gave the families the option to slam a hammer into the walls of the building before the demolition.
—Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
This bit of climactic dialogue, hammered into plain yet insinuating and increasingly dangerous English by Herzog, is emblematic of this new production.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
While traveling across Ukraine last summer with a nonprofit aid group, the sight of a small town in eastern Ukraine hammered into me the indiscriminate nature of Russia’s onslaught.
—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
Weeks later, a group of Cubans brandished poles with nails hammered into them and tried to attack an approaching Coast Guard boat.
—Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
One piece by Thomas Macie is still there today: pennies hammered into warehouse shelving units as a Donald Judd-style permanent installation at Ikea.
—Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
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Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
The film plays around with both vampire and witch mythology, which eventually leads to a spiked mask being hammered into a woman’s face.
—B.j. Colangelo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
Witnesses said the bounce house had been secured by stakes hammered into the ground, according to the station.
—Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
The district gave the families the option to slam a hammer into the walls of the building before the demolition.
—Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
This bit of climactic dialogue, hammered into plain yet insinuating and increasingly dangerous English by Herzog, is emblematic of this new production.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
While traveling across Ukraine last summer with a nonprofit aid group, the sight of a small town in eastern Ukraine hammered into me the indiscriminate nature of Russia’s onslaught.
—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
Weeks later, a group of Cubans brandished poles with nails hammered into them and tried to attack an approaching Coast Guard boat.
—Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
One piece by Thomas Macie is still there today: pennies hammered into warehouse shelving units as a Donald Judd-style permanent installation at Ikea.
—Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
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“Hammer into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hammer%20into. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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