How to Use mallet in a Sentence

mallet

noun
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  • The team cheered as Bell grabbed the mallet and tapped the gong.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Tamp them down to the right height with a rubber mallet.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Next, give the thighs a good pounding with a meat mallet.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 May 2020
  • With a meat mallet or rolling pin, pound the pork pieces to a thickness of 3/8-inch.
    — Jessica Battilana, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Use a mallet or heavy pan to pound out the halves to an even ¼-inch thickness.
    — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Pare by hand to smooth the walls of the mortise and use a mallet to chisel the ends of the mortise square [8].
    — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Pound the pork to ¼-inch thickness, using the meat mallet.
    — CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The game consists of hitting your ball with the mallet through each of these pegs.
    — Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Let cool, then crush the roasted beans with a mallet or rolling pin.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Each tap of the mallet led him to another key out of tune.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
  • Use a meat mallet or other heavy kitchen tool to break open the salt crust and discard the crust.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Her cheek, pressed to his ribs, was indented by the mallet of his heart.
    — Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • She was struck by a short clip of Hoffmann out on the ice, dressed in a two-piece and wielding a mallet.
    — The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • According to the study, Bruno's punch force was equal to a blow from a mallet with a mass of 13 pounds swung at 20mph.
    — Brian Roberts, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Inside the tiny, bright cafe, Qiu and co-owner Amy Kuang use a mallet to pound the fresh fruit by hand.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
  • George jumps over a low partition and hits a ball with a mallet!
    — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 11 June 2018
  • Close the bag, and then tap the candy with a rolling pin or mallet to crush it to small attractive bits.
    — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • For one thing, Mr. Flores, who is 30, holds the mallet by its edge, not by the knob, the way most people do, which is the mark of a novice.
    — Allie Conti, New York Times, 19 July 2019
  • Here’s the mallet that makes her guitar chime like a dulcimer.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Using a mallet or the bottom of a saucepan, evenly pound them to 1/8-inch thick.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Also get a short, thick piece of wood, such as a 12-inch length of two-by-four, and a rubber mallet.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • This lawn game hails from England and has simple rules: hit your ball with a mallet and get the ball to go through the wire rings.
    — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Then, gently use a hammer or a mallet to transfer the pigment from the petals to the paper.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Using the flat side of a meat mallet, pound chicken breasts to about 3/4-inch thickness.
    — Julia Levy, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
  • Crush the cinnamon with a kitchen mallet or rolling pin to break it into small pieces.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Get a mallet and Lewis bag, or a kitchen towel in a pinch, and work off some stress with a little smashing.
    — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • If your hull is aluminum, bang the drum slowly with a rubber mallet to knock out dents.
    — Popmech Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Use a meat mallet or the back of a spatula to gently smash the potatoes to ½-inch thickness.
    — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
  • The sounds of the wooden mallet and bells are flat, compressed through my laptop speakers.
    — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Use a meat mallet or the back of a spatula to gently smash the potatoes to 1/2-inch thickness.
    — Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2018

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