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How to use sledge in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun, verb

Sledge means a sledgehammer. Example: “The sledge ran far better upon the ice; I cannot say the same for the dogs.”

Examples of sledge by meaning

nounA sledgehammer.

  • Sledge hammers are only used for heavy-duty persuading when working on vehicles or machinery.2006, Tom Benford, Garage And Workshop Gear Guide

verbTo hit with a sledgehammer.

  • When I inquired the reason of this wire being used in the construction of the safe, I was told it was to prevent the doors being broken by either sledging or wedging.2005, Langdon W Moore, Langdon W. Moore: His Own Story of His Eventful Life

nounA low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.

  • The sledge ran far better upon the ice; I cannot say the same for the dogs.

nounAny type of sled or sleigh.

  • There are also Winter Paralympic Games with Alpine and Nordic events, as well as sledge hockey - a form of ice hockey using a seated sledge.2006, Richard Higgins, Peter Brukner, Bryan English, editors, Essential Sports Medicine

verbTo drag or draw a sledge.

  • Sledging en route to Mt.2004, Andy Selters, Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering

verbTo verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike).

  • I've never been one to sledge on the field.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 182
  • Batteries of fast bowlers softened batsmen up with short-pitched bowling, while fielders tried to disturb their concentration with a running commentary of insults commonly known as sledging.1998, Larry Elliott, Daniel E Atkinson, The Age of Insecurity
  • The 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket includes new anti-sledging provisions.2005, David Fraser, Cricket and the Law: The Man in White Is Always Right

nounAn instance of sledging.

  • Now that's what I call a sledge.1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 173

More sentences with sledge

  • The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just wailing on it with a big old sledge hammer.From the entry wail on
  • The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just whaling on it with a big old sledge hammer.From the entry whale on
  • Isobella Bellamy sledging near Newby Head Farm in the Yorkshire Dales national park.2018 January 21, Joanna Ruck, “Sledging and dog sled racing: Sunday's best photos”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry Isobella
  • The rein raid is the traditional way of long-distance travel in the winter with reindeers and sledges.2017, Gaute Svensson, Arvid Viken, “Respect in the Girdnu: The Sami Verdde Institution and Tourism in Northern Norway”, in Arvid Viken…. From the entry bidos
  • He dragged a sledge with a haul of driftwood, bottles and cans.2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel (Arkady Renko; 8), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN; 1st trade paperback…. From the entry haul
  • Not bad, considering we had an inexperienced dragsman, the heavy sledge, and no jill.1987, Melissa Scott, The kindly ones, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry dragsman
  • Mind you, Wally wasn't bad at the sledging caper himself.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 181. From the entry sledging
  • These wheels turned in one piece with the axle, which was secured to the body of the sledge with leather thongs.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 79. From the entry mortise
  • These blocks are sledged by band, sorted and hand cobbed to remove impurities; but hand cobbing is slow and expensive.1919, United States. Bureau of Mines, Report of Investigations, page 3. From the entry cob
  • The lighter sledges are used ' ' up-handed, " that is, for lifting and striking in a circular arc simply, over the work.1909, Workshop Receipts, for Manufacturers and Scientific Amateurs, page 126. From the entry up-handed
  • We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board.2008, Tim Winton, chapter 3, in Breath, Picador UK Paperback 2008 edition, page 30. From the entry Mississippi
  • Less than half a mile to the south the party sighted an underrunner of a sledge, and assumed it to mark the location the Norwegians had assigned for 90°S.2002, Paul Simpson-Housley, Antarctica: Exploration, Perception and Metaphor, page 36. From the entry underrunner
  • I put "Harvey" and "Eccles", the strongest and slowest dogs, on a long trace and fastened them to each side of the sledge to provide extra braking power.1996, Kevin Walton, Rick Atkinson, Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic, page 92. From the entry huit
  • The more common practice is to scrape the solid manure into a konaki, a walled sledge or cart, and allow the liquid to discharge into a drain.1967, Ralph Du Faur, Dairy Farming for Profit, page 206. From the entry konaki
  • Designed to give a lighter draught and at the same time be of more general use, the konaki has replaced the ordinary farm sledge on many farms in Taranaki.1942, New Zealand Journal of Agriculture - Volumes 64-65, page 270. From the entry konaki
  • The cloop-cloop of the horse's hoofs on the road rang out musically in the frosty air, raising ringing, iron-sounding echoes, like blacksmith's sledges on an anvil.1912 January, Cecil D. G. Franklin (“Cetic”), “One Chance Meeting Another”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume XLVI (New Series)…. From the entry cloop
  • Christmas Day was spent at this camp, and, as was the case with the other sledging expeditions that were out at the time, a special feast was provided.1909, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, “Christmas on a Glacier”, in The Heart of the Antarctic, volume 2, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott…. From the entry hoosh

Meaning of sledge

  1. noun A sledgehammer.
  2. verb To hit with a sledgehammer.
  3. noun A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.

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Questions about sledge in a sentence

How do you use sledge in a sentence?
Sledge is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The sledge ran far better upon the ice; I cannot say the same for the dogs.”
What is a short sentence with sledge?
“Sledging en route to Mt.”
What does sledge mean?
Sledge means a sledgehammer.

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