How to Use hammer out in a Sentence

hammer out

verb

• The specifics of the bill have not yet been hammered out, Sirota said.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The two sides will hammer out a final agreement at the end of the session.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2023
• The longer the stalemate goes on, the more time there is to hammer out arrangements.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• Still, there are details that need to be hammered out by each side.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2024
• Then went Theresa May, who struggled for three years to hammer out a trade deal with the EU.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
• If not, the two sides will attempt to hammer out a compromise.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2022
• District leaders will help students over the summer and fall to hammer out a budget and plans to bring the idea to life.
  — Dallas News, 23 May 2022
• And this week’s negotiations may be the best shot yet to hammer out a deal.
  — Gregory Scruggs, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• In 2017, the guild did threaten to hold a strike authorization vote in the closing days of talks, but held off as the deal was hammered out.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 June 2023
• The second and fourth fingers can become a prong that hammers out rapid patterns.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The news this week that Putin met with Prigozhin five days after the mutiny suggested that details of the agreement were still being hammered out.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• But video showed the suspect, also wearing a white baseball cap, take a hammer out of his blue backpack and swing it over the head of the 44-year-old male victim.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2021
• The quarterback indicated the teams are trying to hammer out a trade, but that the Packers were holding up the process.
  — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
• The group, which has three alternates, hammered out short-term rental issues that residents have railed against for over a year.
  — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
• Just like the mix of feelings about the sheds themselves, there has been a wide range of reactions to the new system, though details are still being hammered out.
  — Deepti Hajela, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• As far as wedding plans are concerned, Bezos and Sánchez are still hammering out the details.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
• As for Taiwan, the superpowers could do worse than to dust off their old promise, hammered out by Kissinger, to agree to disagree.
  — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• At this point, the major sticking point is not about overall spending levels, which were hammered out last month.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Feb. 2024
• Samaha said state officials told him there wasn’t enough time to gather a work group and hammer out the substantive issues for the fund in six weeks.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• The legislative compromise hammered out by the unions and fast-food companies is due to expire in 2029.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• Multiple sources confirmed to the outlet that final details have yet to be hammered out.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 16 June 2023
• Leighton grouchily deals with being dropped like a soggy copy of The New Yorker, and the rest of the girls hammer out their extracurriculars.
  — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2021
• The precise text of the final communique is still being hammered out in last-minute bargaining.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• Tannehill’s receiver options are almost all new this year, now that A.J. Brown is gone, so there may be a learning curve to hammer out this week.
  — David Hill, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Negotiators in Cairo, Mr. Biden said, were hoping to hammer out an agreement that would free the remaining hostages in Gaza and halt the fighting for at least six weeks.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• He’s spent hours with lawyers hammering out sponsorship deals.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• The Outer Space Treaty—which was hammered out in 1967, before anyone even set foot on the moon—says no one can deploy nukes or claim territory for their own.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
• Negotiators had been hoping to hammer out a deal before the end of Friday, ahead of French elections Sunday.
  — Kelvin Chan, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022
• Moments later, one of them pulled a hammer out of his pocket and began smashing glass display cases.
  — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2022
• And if members are worn out and unwilling to strike, that could make for less pressure and leverage to push studios to hammer out a deal favorable for workers.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024