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

"While wielding the mallet... a shock in my eye, I have to be hospitalised. Retinal detachment," he would write in a memoir years later.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025

Jumping up and down would deform parts so that the holes aligned temporarily, allowing the mechanic to hit a pin with a mallet into the hole, he said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Besides, I didn’t have anything but a small wooden mallet I had made.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George