sawhorse
Example Sentences
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My husband made a chute from a 10-foot cardboard tube, which we decorated with streamers and propped on a sawhorse.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021
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
You never know when you might need some needle-nose pliers or a foldable sawhorse or a heavy-duty ratcheting tie-down.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2016
Joe pulled a sawhorse to the other side of the shell and sat down on it, facing the older man.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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