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

In 2014, the artist began working on her “Draped Marble” series, devising a way to bend a marble slab over a sawhorse as you might hang a beach towel over a chair.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2017

“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

For some time he had been riding the saddle on a sawhorse.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck