mallet

She used a mallet to pound a metal tube into the rocky sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

The remaining icicles were put into the pail, and with the mallet, Duane hammered them and crushed them into something like snow, but still with the icy crunch he preferred.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

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

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

With two pink-felted mallets in his right hand and one in the left, he began to pick out the mesmeric rhythm and melody, expertly striking the xylophone-like metal bars creating a delicate, resonant sound.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

Instead of using traditional “wedges, mallets and jimmies,” Walling wrote, Leslie went for a more clever and quiet approach.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023

She found herself standing, and on legs that felt weirdly like rubber mallets, transporting herself up the other aisle and out the doors.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon