trowel
Example Sentences
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When I saw her, brandishing a hard hat and trowel at a housebuilding site, there seemed no question of her going anywhere.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025
The oatmeal color looks about right and when Risa picks at it with her trowel, the surrounding black and gray debris falls away, revealing the rough outline of a box’s edge.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025
This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024
The team of researchers used a trowel to shave 1 to 2 centimeters of snow from the surface of 130 polar bear prints left near Alaska’s North Slope.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2023
When he reached the end of the dirt road, Mr. Trepid got out of the car and retrieved his shovel, trowel, and sack from the trunk.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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