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

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