How to Use hammer out in a Sentence

hammer out

verb
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  • The new platform was hammered out behind closed doors — another shift from years prior.
    — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 July 2024
  • The couple hammered out the minutiae of IVF with their specialist, down to the timing of every hormone shot.
    — Jessica Kutz, Vox, 30 May 2024
  • The specifics of the bill have not yet been hammered out, Sirota said.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • But keep in mind there was a deal that had been hammered out.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • The two sides will hammer out a final agreement at the end of the session.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The longer the stalemate goes on, the more time there is to hammer out arrangements.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Still, there are details that need to be hammered out by each side.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Then went Theresa May, who struggled for three years to hammer out a trade deal with the EU.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
  • If not, the two sides will attempt to hammer out a compromise.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2022
  • District leaders will help students over the summer and fall to hammer out a budget and plans to bring the idea to life.
    — Dallas News, 23 May 2022
  • And this week’s negotiations may be the best shot yet to hammer out a deal.
    — Gregory Scruggs, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In 2017, the guild did threaten to hold a strike authorization vote in the closing days of talks, but held off as the deal was hammered out.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 June 2023
  • The parties worked over the weekend to hammer out such provisions.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • Policies are hammered out there before coming to the full council for a vote.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
  • The second and fourth fingers can become a prong that hammers out rapid patterns.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The news this week that Putin met with Prigozhin five days after the mutiny suggested that details of the agreement were still being hammered out.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • But video showed the suspect, also wearing a white baseball cap, take a hammer out of his blue backpack and swing it over the head of the 44-year-old male victim.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The quarterback indicated the teams are trying to hammer out a trade, but that the Packers were holding up the process.
    — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The group, which has three alternates, hammered out short-term rental issues that residents have railed against for over a year.
    — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • Just like the mix of feelings about the sheds themselves, there has been a wide range of reactions to the new system, though details are still being hammered out.
    — Deepti Hajela, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • As of 2024, many details about how the law will be regulated are still being hammered out.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2024
  • The Biden administration has given the space agency until the end of 2026 to hammer out the new system.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • As far as wedding plans are concerned, Bezos and Sánchez are still hammering out the details.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
  • As for Taiwan, the superpowers could do worse than to dust off their old promise, hammered out by Kissinger, to agree to disagree.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • This year, nearly all of the world’s countries are hammering out a United Nations treaty to deal with the plastic crisis.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 20 June 2024
  • At this point, the major sticking point is not about overall spending levels, which were hammered out last month.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The new draft bill being hammered out in parliament could resolve the crisis if wide agreement is reached.
    — Maayan Lubell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • Samaha said state officials told him there wasn’t enough time to gather a work group and hammer out the substantive issues for the fund in six weeks.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The legislative compromise hammered out by the unions and fast-food companies is due to expire in 2029.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Shashi and Haresh hammered out the details in person in Shashi’s Glendale townhouse in 1995, Shashi testified.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024

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