How to Use "axe" with Example Sentences

1. When the axe fell , it was sharper than expected .
2. The secretary 's axe now threatens to slow the state 's economic recovery .
3. The axe will fall on the whitehall bureaucracy .
4. He also voted for a republican budget that sought to axe the entire commerce department .
5. As california wrestles with a horrendous budget deficit , the axe hangs over almost every area of state spending , from welfare to education .