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

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

From BBC • Apr. 10, 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

Then you womp on the chisel with the wooden mallet and drive the cotton home.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick