mallet
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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
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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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