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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
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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
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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
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Refreshing your home for spring doesn’t require a sledgehammer and a big price tag.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2025
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Congressional Republicans promised the party would approach the IRA with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.—
Daniel Moore,
Axios,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.—
Matt Schubert,
The Denver Post,
3 Nov. 2024
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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
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My pet peeve is judges who bang their gavel each time that rule on something.—
Rich Heldenfels,
Boston Herald,
2 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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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