sawhorse

Example Sentences

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I use a slim wine-box lid to slide bread into the oven, a ravaged-looking sawhorse as an impressively butch shelf.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

What’s up with the maid wearing a welding helmet hitting a rubber anvil placed on a sawhorse?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2018

Streets leading to the course are closed, but on many of them, in most years, the only barrier is a blue, wooden sawhorse and a thin plastic tape.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2017

In 2014, the artist began working on her “Draped Marble” series, devising a way to bend a marble slab over a sawhorse as you might hang a beach towel over a chair.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2017

There was a mirror behind it, a sawhorse in front with some wood clamped in a vise, and an abundance of sawdust all over the floor.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool