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mallet

[mal-it] / ˈmæl ɪt /


NOUN
mace
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A hospital monitor’s flat-line drone dissolved into an orchestral beginning, suggesting a return to life; hand-drum rhythms injected Mexican flavor, while bells and mallet instruments supplied some otherworldly touches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Alternatively, use a meat mallet to flatten and add a pattern to the cookies.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

As Tom uses a mallet to hammer in the homemade signs, passing motorists sound their horns.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

In his memoir, “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics,” Biden acknowledged discovering a polo mallet, riding breeches and other markers of a privileged life in his father’s closet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2024

Above him loomed a grotesque fat man with a forked yellow beard, holding a wooden mallet and an iron chisel.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

SINGAPORE—The crowd gasped as the brokers swung the wooden mallets on the lid of the sake barrel, cracking it open in celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

In the port of La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit cities, the BBC saw people using crowbars, mallets and pickaxes to try to dig out loved ones and neighbours.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

They distributed xylophone mallets to those waiting in line.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

But it was too hot, so I spread newspapers out over the kitchen table and got the bucket of wooden mallets from the cabinet above the refrigerator.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings


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