sawhorse

Example Sentences

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About 100 feet of sawhorse barrier lined the entrance to Hillside Middle School here in Manchester, N.H., unintentionally evincing the divide in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

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

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

“Pavlova’s Dawg” also functions as a fine pivot between Vincent Fecteau’s shadow-box collage and Charles Ray’s stack of bricks lashed with a thick rope to a well-used sawhorse.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2016

What I’m after is out of reach, so I drag over a sawhorse and climb up on it.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick