dowel

Example Sentences

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By the time she folds it shut with a long wooden dowel, the flatbread is already bubbly and browned.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2023

After you treat a hole, wait 24 hours, then plug the hole with a short length of wooden dowel coated with wood glue or with steel wool covered with caulk.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

Maintenance is easy, too: He just turns it with a rebar dowel and hoses it down when it's dry.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2022

No, a guy walks into a gallery, carrying a bar — a wooden dowel painted in bright stripes of color.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2022

With a sharp knife, she cut the roll into paper-thin strips, unwound the strips and hung them on a rack made of slender dowel sticks, which stood before the kitchen stove.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith