How to Use anvil in a Sentence

anvil

noun

• Why hang around and wait for that anvil to drop on your head?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 Dec. 2017
• Just a band dragging an anvil down the road for decades.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2018
• The bad nap, the sad nap, lies in wait like Wile E. Coyote with an anvil.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2020
• Often the top of the smoke column flattens to take the shape of an anvil.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• Only a sharp strike on the face of the anvil was such to cause joint failure.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• And as more enthusiasts join the fray, the price of anvils has risen.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• My chest felt as if there were an anvil sitting on top of it.
  — Deborah Copaken, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2020
• But like an anvil sinking to the bottom of the sea, there was no stopping it.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2021
• Often the top of the smoke column flattens into the shape of an anvil.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
• The thought weighed like an anvil on Sparky Anderson’s head.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• And the bones and stones were found in two areas, each roughly centered on what’s thought to be an anvil.
  — Malcolm Ritter, The Seattle Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• Nor did hammering the head on the anvil provide enough shock to break the handle-head joint.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• Position the bar stock on the vise’s anvil and deliver a sharp blow to the chisel.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• If the anvil had to land on the Roadrunners eventually, this was the time and place for it.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Nov. 2021
• Women can flex their muscles in the skillet throw and men can chuck anvils.
  — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2020
• Night falls like an anvil at Castle Hot Springs, which limits guests to about 50.
  — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2022
• Back to the controls: a few button presses, and the lower anvil begins rising from the floor to hit the core.
  — Mark Zastrow, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2019
• Look for the dome-like protrusion shooting out above the anvil of the thunderstorm.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2019
• Both of the images above shows what that looks like: protrusions that bubble up from the flat anvil.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2016
• Even so, none of these ratios is even close to how mercury is twice as dense as the anvil in Reeder’s video.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2020
• Gliding along, singing its song, the R1T feels strangely light and heavy, like an aluminum anvil.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• Try crushing them with a big hammer, using a large rock as an anvil.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2021
• The two got their hands on an anvil, a mechanic’s hammer, and some pliers and watched some YouTube videos.
  — Devorah Lev-Tov, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
• Digging revealed two large, heavy stones whose sharp edges and cracks pointed to use as anvils.
  — Traci Watson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
• The site’s capuchins use quartzite cobbles as hammerstones, and tree limbs and loose stones as anvils.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• The news of 2022 is like an anvil weighing down on our collective psyche.
  — Longreads, 6 Dec. 2022
• The smallest bones are inside your ear, and they are known as the hammer (malleus), stirrup (stapes), and anvil (incus).
  — Jason Bittel, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
• On the other hand, anvil pruners have a cutting blade that closes against a flat edge for a chopping cut on dead, woody stems.
  — Jodi Torpey/ Special To The Denver Post, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• The anvil heads nestle together to form a kind of secondary surface above the skin that fluid can flow across.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• For a few bars, the orchestra stops playing and the anvils hammer away on their own—industry incarnate.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024