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mallet

[mal-it] / ˈmæl ɪt /


NOUN
mace
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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

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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