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

What’s up with the maid wearing a welding helmet hitting a rubber anvil placed on a sawhorse?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2018

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

They snake between dusty boxes, overwhelm a sawhorse; he leads her through a thicket of them to what feels like an upholstered piano bench at the far end, and helps her sit.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr