trowel

Example Sentences

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You’ll want to bring a trowel, and have a plan for toilet paper.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

The intros had been written, the praise laid on thick, with a trowel.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 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

He put his trowel down and squeezed his waist as he stretched his back.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago