mallet

A hospital monitor’s flat-line drone dissolved into an orchestral beginning, suggesting a return to life; hand-drum rhythms injected Mexican flavor, while bells and mallet instruments supplied some otherworldly touches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

"It's so hard to do, number one. Number two, my back and my neck from swinging that hammer around, or mallet, I think it's called, if you're in the know, it's polo language."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024

He put the saw away and brought the mallet to her.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

SINGAPORE—The crowd gasped as the brokers swung the wooden mallets on the lid of the sake barrel, cracking it open in celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

With two pink-felted mallets in his right hand and one in the left, he began to pick out the mesmeric rhythm and melody, expertly striking the xylophone-like metal bars creating a delicate, resonant sound.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

The two men with mallets were oblivious to the pandemonium around them.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore