Use "stave in" in a sentence

1. He pulled out the black piece of bone and raised it in one hand while raising the curled stave in the other, and he slammed the two together over his head

2. I don't imagine you're worried that these gentlemen will stave in walls that shells from your frigate couldn't breach?"

3. Then, after half lifting one to make sure it was full, we went on our knees and, with the blade of a small knife which I carried, I prepared to stave in the bung-hole

4. There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave in the third

5. That point is this: The Sperm Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing, and judiciously malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in, utterly destroy, and sink a large ship; and what is more, the Sperm Whale HAS done it