trowel
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You’ll want to bring a trowel, and have a plan for toilet paper.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024
The team of researchers used a trowel to shave 1 to 2 centimeters of snow from the surface of 130 polar bear prints left near Alaska’s North Slope.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2023
Sian Edwards, his wife, used to bang her gardening trowel on the shell to shake off loose earth.
From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2023
She ducked under the tangled honeysuckle toward the garden path, using her trowel like a machete to hack through some overgrown vines that crowded her jungly little porch.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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