How to Use hatchet in a Sentence

hatchet

noun

• Axes and hatchets are wood chopping tools that have been used for centuries.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2015
• The back of the head appears to then have been struck by a series of forceful blows from a small hatchet or cleaver.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
• Some hatchets are formed from a single piece of steel, such as this Estwing.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2015
• 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
• Two years on, the two appear to have buried the hatchet.
  — Rebecca Picciotto,christina Wilkie, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Old pros at burying the hatchet, Jane’s Addiction (7 p.m. Sept. 24 at Aragon; bylinebankaragonballroom.com) ready their latest victory lap, this time with their classic lineup in tow.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024