How to Use hacksaw in a Sentence

hacksaw

noun
  • Use a hacksaw to cut the strips for the 36 rings to length.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Clamp the bar stock in the vise, place a drop of oil in the notch, and rest the hacksaw blade in it.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
  • Beasley sawed through the steel bars in his cell with a hacksaw.
    Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Use the hacksaw to cut off half of the metal on each pick.
    Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
  • One boy, a sophomore, even tries to cut off his feet with a hacksaw.
    Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • If necessary, cut the curtain rod to the right length with a junior hacksaw.
    The Editors Of House Beautiful, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2015
  • He had been bound with duct tape, stabbed more than 20 times with a screwdriver and had his throat cut open with a hacksaw.
    Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Then, use a hacksaw to trim the protruding injection ports flush with the wall.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2020
  • A meat-centric restaurant without a butcher shop is like a sushi counter where the chef goes at the fish with a hacksaw.
    Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 24 May 2017
  • Van Niekerk took a hacksaw and removed the bigger horn.
    Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
  • Fortunately, the use of a hot wrench (oxy-acetylene torch) or a hacksaw will cure the problem in a jiffy.
    Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Enlarge / Want to blow up zombies and then slice their remains with a hacksaw?
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Put down your hacksaw and pick up the P590, a cordless metal-cutting solution priced for the rest of us.
    Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Some repairs also may require a hand sander, a hacksaw, a nail bar and a level.
    Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2017
  • The whole production is elegant and tasteful to a fault, even when, in the second half, the revolvers and hacksaws come out.
    Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 21 June 2017
  • The top three blades can be used in either a standard-tension hacksaw or in a high-tension hacksaw.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The original film had an infamous hacksaw scene, where Art tied up a young woman and sawed her in half.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The 6-inch base of this tree wasn’t going to be straightened with a hacksaw, but husband’s chainsaw was out of commission.
    Karen Huppertz, ajc, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Also recovered from the same dumpster: a hacksaw, a hammer, a Tyvek suit with a red-brown stain on it, and snips, a tool used to cut sheet metal.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Use a hacksaw or a circular saw with a metal-cutting blade.
    Roy Berendsohn and Mike Cunningham, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2020
  • There are modular saws that look a bit like a hacksaw, wherein the blade can be swapped out for other purposes.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2018
  • This is an excellent hacksaw for most use cases and buyers.
    Brittany Vincent, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Hose down hacksaw and reciprocating saw blades that cut metal after the job is done and before storing the blade.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
  • There is a now-notorious murder scene, a hacksaw scene, in Part I that everyone walks away talking about.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Oct. 2022
  • After the emergency hacksaw surgery on his hooves, Sherman barely moved.
    Christopher McDougall, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2016
  • From another bin, Polfrey extracted a hacksaw and a file.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Although a table saw, circular saw and hacksaw are all useful, they must be handled with caution.
    Author: Daniel Bortz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2018
  • But Kujo had been found dead that morning under a neighbor’s house, and Karl, sentimentally, had carried the body to his wheelbarrow and cut the dog’s head off with a hacksaw.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Among the items secured were towels, rags, slippers, tape, gloves, cleaning agents, a Covid-19 vaccination card in the name of Ana Walshe, a hacksaw and a hatchet, the prosecutor said.
    Mike Hayes, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Two friends playfully attack each other, brandishing a hacksaw and a cleaver.
    Susan Delson, WSJ, 30 July 2021

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