mallet

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Recent Examples of mallet According to a police report, the handle of the mallet broke during the attack, which led Tomasini to switch his weapon to a candlestick. Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025 Loading your audio article OAKLAND — A man charged joining another man to beat their victim to death with a mallet and a bicycle may not be mentally competent for trial, according to court records. Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2024 And remember: never bring a knife to a meat mallet fight. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024 The precursor of the xylophone and marimba, a balafon is made by carefully cutting 21 wooden slats into different lengths, fixing them atop hallow calabashes, and striking them with mallets wound with the gum and sap of a rubber tree. Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mallet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
  • The Ring of the Fisherman is smashed by the camerlengo with a ceremonial hammer, marking the end of the deceased pope’s reign.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • If learning the difference in roles that wielding a switch axe has in contrast to a hammer doesn’t sound complex enough there are elemental weaknesses and resistances to keep in mind around each monster.
    Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Refreshing your home for spring doesn’t require a sledgehammer and a big price tag.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Congressional Republicans promised the party would approach the IRA with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.
    Daniel Moore, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • These critters include wood wasps and various flies, weevils and other beetles and, of course, termites, those wood-eaters extraordinaire.
    Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Standing among the blooms in the fields and several gardens will be glass and steel sculptures of life-like butterflies, dragonflies, birds, bees and beetles, up to 12 feet high.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • My pet peeve is judges who bang their gavel each time that rule on something.
    Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
  • His objection was not recognized, with Biden, then the vice president, interrupting Raskin by banging the gavel and saying the debate was out of order.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Hackman, 95, racked by advanced Alzheimer’s disease, then died in a mudroom on the other side of the house, a cane and sunglasses nearby.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
  • His body was discovered on the ground near the kitchen, with a walking cane and sunglasses next to him, on February 26.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025

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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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