trowel

However, since his arrest, a warning has appeared on the trowel manufacturer's website.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

We used a hand trowel to collect samples in Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu in late March.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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 was smoothing it with his iron trowel.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a five-foot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Professor Cobb pointed out that "Archaeologists must have their hands free while recording data, since we need to hold our trowels and brushes while digging."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

That’s in no more than half an hour of walking around, without trowels and paintbrushes.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2023

Only gloves and trowels are needed to remove the particle.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2022

We work side by side, using flat-bottomed trowels and occasionally shears to cut the vines and roots that weave through the blanket of dirt.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Or the installers might have troweled on a floor-leveling compound but failed to smooth it.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

Stucco — rarely seen in colder climes — can mimic two-foot-thick adobe, when troweled onto wood frames.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2019

The plaster was troweled directly onto the brick walls, making removal difficult.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2016

So thickly is this dysfunctional dynamic troweled on to the opening episodes that it not only feels fake, but oppressive.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2015

He mixed the cement and troweled over the hole.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Paul senses the irony is being rather trowelled on, but it's now too late.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2013

The ghost of the abstract expressionist Clyfford Still and his sooty trowelled surfaces is intimated in a painting of a slabby night-time wall, illuminated by a single yellow-lit window.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010

A layer of thin clay mortar was then spread over the surface and well trowelled until it began to show on the under side.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

The walls were given a coat of plaster and a coat of rough-cast, which was gently trowelled over to smooth the surface slightly.

From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Williams-Ellis, Clough

“Try the beef, guv’ner,” says a gentleman in the style of head-dress known as a “deerstalker,” which he wore while he trowelled his dinner into his mouth with the blade of a very wide knife.

From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville

You’re basically painting or troweling on a thin layer of limestone.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

Immediately, this dynamo of energy fell in love with the slow, methodical process of mixing mortar, troweling, and stacking bricks.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2019

Working in a hot kitchen, troweling french fries into paper bags, isn’t easy, but a lot of people would consider it easier than helping an adult out of bed and to the toilet.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2019

Laboring to be poetic, it was merely sophomoric, troweling on cliche with such abandon that I found myself wondering if the libretto was deliberately trying to evoke the banality of Marnie’s world.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2018

Laborers carried the mortar down the ladders to the masons who would lay the stones on top of each other, troweling a layer of mortar between each stone and each layer of stones.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

The Italian version of As Tears Go By has real value to Stones fans, as it has a substantially different arrangement to their orginal English-language recording, trowelling on the medieval knight-in-shining-armour Lady Jane shtick.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2011

No matter that the larva will perish by this untimely trowelling: the moment has come to wall up the door; the door is walled up.

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Much depends upon the workmen giving it sufficient labour, and trowelling it down.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849