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

"It does look like a cross between a mallet and a toilet brush. So they're not always pretty, but yet what comes out of them is so spectacular."

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

In my case, we placed the next piece of flooring tight to the previously installed piece and then whacked it with a rubber mallet to snap the two pieces together.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024

The water in the skins was two months stale, and besides, he’d gotten used to the labor—which involved an ironwood mallet and pounding stakes deep into the sand.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor