mallet
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She used a mallet to pound a metal tube into the rocky sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Alternatively, use a meat mallet to flatten and add a pattern to the cookies.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
"It does look like a cross between a mallet and a toilet brush. So they're not always pretty, but yet what comes out of them is so spectacular."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
“I’m through! Now, Miss Jo, I’ll settle you, and get in first,” cried the young gentleman, swinging his mallet for another blow.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
Quite taken by Ayers's enthusiasm and delight at the performance, Hampton gifted the youngster a pair of vibe mallets.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
They had all the equipment at the ready: crowbars, shovels, and mallets.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
As three people struck wood with mallets under a viaduct in Queens during the morning rush hour one day in the fall, a man walked up and asked, “What do you call this music?”
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
He looked like he had been fashioned by setting boulders atop boulders; his hands were iron mallets and his face rough-carved out of granite.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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