mallet

Example Sentences

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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

As Tom uses a mallet to hammer in the homemade signs, passing motorists sound their horns.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

The expert said he had to strike the fully cocked gun with a mallet and break it in order for it to fire without depressing the trigger.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

His host put the mallet and chisel aside.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin