sawhorse

Example Sentences

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About 100 feet of sawhorse barrier lined the entrance to Hillside Middle School here in Manchester, N.H., unintentionally evincing the divide in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

My husband made a chute from a 10-foot cardboard tube, which we decorated with streamers and propped on a sawhorse.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021

I use a slim wine-box lid to slide bread into the oven, a ravaged-looking sawhorse as an impressively butch shelf.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

What’s up with the maid wearing a welding helmet hitting a rubber anvil placed on a sawhorse?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2018

What I’m after is out of reach, so I drag over a sawhorse and climb up on it.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick