dowel

Example Sentences

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By the time she folds it shut with a long wooden dowel, the flatbread is already bubbly and browned.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2023

No, a guy walks into a gallery, carrying a bar — a wooden dowel painted in bright stripes of color.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2022

Once you’re feeling confident, St. Jean says you can graduate to a dowel or tapered pin, or even start using the center of the pin like a dowel and skip the handles altogether.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2021

Glued in place, that dowel would give the joint plenty of strength.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2019

Held up by a series of metal pipes as thin as dowel rods.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon