How to Use sawhorse in a Sentence

sawhorse

noun
Definition of sawhorsenext
  • Fasten the legs to the sawhorse by marking 4 inches in from the ends of the I-beam.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Lay out cabinet doors on a sawhorse with 2x4 planks on top.
    — Chelsea Evers, Country Living, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Step 2: Align the ends of the tops (A) and the bottom panels (A) of the side cases on sawhorses and lay out the divider locations.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Bishop offers a pair of steel sawhorses set with red and black doll heads, toy tanks, and tiny houses.
    — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Streets leading to the course are closed, but on many of them, in most years, the only barrier is a blue, wooden sawhorse and a thin plastic tape.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Some other highlights of the Downtown Crossing pop-up: Doors and sawhorses from hardware stores serve as tables in the center of the store.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Ellis went inside the storage room, dragged out a couple of sawhorses, and laid the plywood flat on top to make things easier for the mayor.
    — al, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Today, on the outskirts of town, peasants riding ox carts and dump trucks heading to Hpakant line up at candy-cane striped sawhorses wrapped in barbed wire.
    — Doug Clark, New York Times, 28 May 2017
  • Startups dotted South of Market, filling long-dormant warehouses with desks made of doors on sawhorses.
    — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2019
  • Workers pass their evenings kicking a deflated soccer ball across the cracked asphalt of the interior parking lot, with sawhorses as goal posts.
    — Gary Coronado, www.latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • Those who knew Amelia in childhood recalled an adventurous tomboy, inclined to make toys out of packing boxes and sawhorses, eschewing dolls.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2017
  • At Easter there were so many family members, her father created makeshift tables by laying boards on top of sawhorses.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Orange and white sawhorses and police barricades continued to block numerous streets around town.
    — Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The return of the prodigal beautiful thing began before the museum opened, with its specially built crate set up on low sawhorses in the middle of a room located amid the museum's many nondescript backstage corridors.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
  • With the bollards in place, Miller said public safety personnel will be able to divert other resources -- like wooden sawhorses commonly used during special events -- to add more protective measures to other parts of the French Quarter.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017

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