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The staff works in an open floor plan; employees tend to camp out at communal tables or desks built from doors and sawhorses and topped with plants and locally made candles.
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Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
The cost of these benches and work aides varies from under $20 for sawhorse brackets to thousands of dollars for a truly beautiful European workbench built out of beech.
—Jack Baruth, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
So when a crane raised the final beam for the building from its position laying across sawhorses, there was applause.
—Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
The operation went from game assembly on top of plywood and sawhorse tables to offices with hundreds of employees.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
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Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
The cost of these benches and work aides varies from under $20 for sawhorse brackets to thousands of dollars for a truly beautiful European workbench built out of beech.
—Jack Baruth, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
So when a crane raised the final beam for the building from its position laying across sawhorses, there was applause.
—Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
The operation went from game assembly on top of plywood and sawhorse tables to offices with hundreds of employees.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
See All Example Sentences for sawhorse
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“Sawhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sawhorse. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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sawhorse
noun
saw·horse
ˈsȯ-ˌhȯ(ə)rs 
: a frame on which wood is laid for sawing by hand
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