1.   It was followed by a hammer blow that echoed like thunder through the steel hulk.

2.   Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets.

3.   The decision is a hammer blow for the coal industry.

4.   The sight was a hammer blow to Yuri Rudakov.

5.   The unending blast of the train horn struck Kate Pritchard like a hammer blow.

6.   Dr. Ray had been watching Patrick unblinkingly as he delivered his hammer blows.

7.   She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow.

8.   The search for Dennis Garvey has been stepped up after a post mortem revealed his wife had died from hammer blows to the head.

9.   A glancing hammer blow can cause nails to become projectiles.