How to Use hatchet in a Sentence

hatchet

noun
  • The post’s steel head was buried in the truck cab like a hatchet.
    Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 17 May 2018
  • The next item down the hatchet was the massive $2 egg roll.
    Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Her aim was to bury the hatchet in a tiny bull’s-eye, 12 feet away.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Our heroine has the tools: a hatchet, a knife and a flint.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The two hug it out and appear to bury the hatchet, both on screen and off.
    Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
  • But the firms appear to have buried the hatchet a little.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 5 June 2017
  • Salvadore, 13, had an arm bruised by a blow from the hatchet or the butt of the revolver.
    James Karst, NOLA.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • It’s a hand tool, like a hatchet, that has an ax on one side of the head and a hoe on the other.
    Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • For dessert, hand each kid a hatchet, shove them all outside, and lock the doors.
    Kate Sidley, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Chucking a hatchet and burying it in the soft wood of a target is just the best.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2020
  • When Drake and Kanye West (now Ye) buried the hatchet, some saw it as the moment hell froze over.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 May 2022
  • Officers arrived and tried to get the man to drop the hatchet.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
  • So Sheldon schleps down to Texas in hopes of burying the hatchet.
    Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 3 May 2018
  • Better for pols to bury the hatchet — but not in each other.
    Maureen Groppe, Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2018
  • Pound these curls with the back of the hatchet to break up the wood fibers and separate the smallest slivers.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The soldier holds Frog as a hostage and Frog’s father comes at them both with a hatchet.
    Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 13 June 2017
  • There’s a food fight, an accident with a hatchet, and a fire.
    Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The letter goes on to say the hatchet disappeared and that Cruz had made a habit of punching holes in the walls of his home.
    Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
  • His knife is hefty enough to use as a wood-cutting hatchet and fine enough to fashion snares.
    Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Meanwhile, Lynskey hadn’t heard about Sheen and Lorre burying the hatchet.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • Elon Musk is about to take a hatchet to Twitter’s workforce.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Seaman hit her husband with a hatchet and stabbed him with a knife more than 20 times.
    NBC News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The news of the two burying the hatchet was huge, considering the feud lasted over a decade.
    Shelby Stewart, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Each Wednesday, Klink gathers her hatchets and a file and sharpens the blades of her trusty tools.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The man was armed with a hatchet, police say, and standing on the front porch when the teen confronted him.
    Josh Magness, miamiherald, 31 May 2018
  • The Gallagher brothers appear to have buried the hatchet.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2017
  • In defense, Cora strikes a man (who turns out to only be a teenager) in the neck with the hatchet.
    Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • The man who struck him on the top of the head with the hatchet, 34-year-old Eric Saia, was sentenced in August to 10 years in prison.
    oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2019
  • When the employees refused, the suspect allegedly attacked them with a hatchet.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Rather than burying the hatchet, both sides seem bent on further bloodying their enemies as the war sprawls across the country after flaring in the capital, Khartoum, in April 2023.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 29 July 2024

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