sawhorse
Example Sentences
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My husband made a chute from a 10-foot cardboard tube, which we decorated with streamers and propped on a sawhorse.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021
I use a slim wine-box lid to slide bread into the oven, a ravaged-looking sawhorse as an impressively butch shelf.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018
“Pavlova’s Dawg” also functions as a fine pivot between Vincent Fecteau’s shadow-box collage and Charles Ray’s stack of bricks lashed with a thick rope to a well-used sawhorse.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2016
You never know when you might need some needle-nose pliers or a foldable sawhorse or a heavy-duty ratcheting tie-down.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2016
There was a sawhorse, and there were three different-sized woodpiles, one of big pieces, one of middle-sized pieces, and one of little pieces for kindlings, all ranked perfectly.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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