trowel

Example Sentences

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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

He does not dib at it and give the trowel back to the mason, but sets to work methodically.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin