mallet

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

But it was a switch from his trusted blade to a mallet putter "to help him with lining up putts" that really sparked a change in fortunes.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

However, during the FBI tests in 2022 at the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., forensic analysts used a rawhide mallet to strike the gun so hard that components of the gun fractured.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

She selected a spoon-tipped chisel and a mallet, then gave the block the same searching look she’d given him a few minutes ago—as if she were trying to read some secret message below its surface.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker