How to use in-sentence of “hammered”:
+ This time the Republicans hammered the idea hard.
+ The key idea is that the slug of metal is red-hot when hammered into place.
+ It is played by hitting its strings and sounds similar in tone of a violin or a hammered dulcimer.
+ EN wiki seems to have hammered this out pretty well, imo.
+ When a piece of hot iron is hammered it takes the shape of a sheet.