How to Use hammer and sickle in a Sentence

hammer and sickle

noun

• There’s a hammer and sickle on the front of the New York Stock Exchange.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• His brown suede belt bore the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• The main stage is adorned with giant red flags flanking the hammer and sickle.
  — Brendan Scott, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Many in the crowd waved socialist-red flags — some adorned with a hammer and sickle.
  — James Angelos, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• The next day, the account posted a hammer and sickle crossed out by a bloody red circle.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020
• But this store used to sell a vodka that had a hammer and sickle on the bottle, and no one raised an eyebrow at that.
  — James Lileks, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• Leave aside the double standard here — how many hipsters are there with the hammer and sickle or Mao’s red star on their T-shirts?
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Sep. 2017
• On a rainy day, the group dressed in Red Army outfits, huddled together to hold a red flag with the hammer and sickle and smiled for the camera.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• Some others on the right had claimed that the tattoo was of a communist hammer and sickle symbol.
  — Daniel Dale, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
• The spray paint also included a picture of a hammer and sickle.
  — Fox News, 3 Nov. 2020
• When the lights went out, Shining Path sometimes lit torches in the shape of a giant hammer and sickle in the mountains above Lima.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Just inside Kachka’s door on Grand Avenue, a hammer and sickle are bolted on the wall.
  — Robert Reid, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
• Erected in 1981, the monument depicts a woman with a sword in one hand and a shield embossed with a hammer and sickle in the other.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
• The game starts with a full-screen image of the hammer and sickle designed by Michal Hlaváč, who was 14 at that time, and worked with his younger brother, Juraj, who was only 10.
  — Andrada Fiscutean, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
• There’s a Porsche dealership near the city center that still has a hammer and sickle statue outside.
  — Niree Noel, Allure, 27 July 2018
• Do not follow the advice of Twitter communists and stage a rent strike with hammer and sickle in hand, tempting as that might be.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• Soldiers marched in goose step under a red arch emblazoned with the hammer and sickle as cannons fired 100 rounds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• Transnistria is the only place in the world whose national symbol is still the Soviet hammer and sickle.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Two is symbolized by hands holding a hammer and sickle.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• The hammer and sickle of communism can still be seen, but they are far outnumbered by Nike swooshes and the interlocking C’s of the Chanel logo.
  — Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2017
• One featured a drawing of Sessions's face over a Soviet hammer and sickle.
  — Leah Sottile, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
• The Communist Party of India had planted its hammer and sickle flag at the tea estate entrance.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2019
• Purporting to be based in San Francisco, its profile picture shows a blond woman wearing a fur hat with a hammer and sickle badge.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• Transnistria has its own flag, complete with a Soviet-style hammer and sickle, and a separate identity from the rest of Moldova.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin and the tricolor state flag of the Russian Federation hoisted instead.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• Another light display shone the Communist hammer and sickle onto clouds over Shenzhen, a flashily commercial city in the south.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• Decades before, No. 17 was famous as the building with the dancer: A statue of a ballerina, holding a hammer and sickle, placed atop the cupola during Stalin’s building blitz.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• The disguised antisemitism that for so long had been as ubiquitous a feature of Soviet society as the hammer and sickle started to shed its covers.
  — Margarita Gokun Silver, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2018
• Even her last public appearance — her funeral — was marked by the Communist Party hammer and sickle flag that adorned her coffin.
  — Isabella Gomez, Teen Vogue, 26 Jan. 2018
• Swayed by the allure of easy money, his successor, Joseph Stalin, revived the old tsarist vodka monopoly, rebranded with a hammer and sickle.
  — Mark Lawrence Schrad, Time, 20 July 2021

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024