mallet
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In the book Mr. King specifies that the instrument of destruction is a short roque mallet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Alternatively, use a meat mallet to flatten and add a pattern to the cookies.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
The ensemble spends much of its time on mallet instruments, setting the stage, keeping a melodic line or pulse going.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
"While wielding the mallet... a shock in my eye, I have to be hospitalised. Retinal detachment," he would write in a memoir years later.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
He put the saw away and brought the mallet to her.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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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
Santoor is a trapezoid-shaped stringed musical instrument, similar to a dulcimer, which is played with mallets.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
Instead of using traditional “wedges, mallets and jimmies,” Walling wrote, Leslie went for a more clever and quiet approach.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023
But it was too hot, so I spread newspapers out over the kitchen table and got the bucket of wooden mallets from the cabinet above the refrigerator.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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