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
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
The dowel and tapered pins are the most straightforward, consisting of a single piece.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2021
It’s funny, how you can go years seeing only what you choose to see, and picking your outrage like you pick out a slip, leaving all the others hanging on their slim mesarthium dowel.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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