Examples of trowel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Likens usually keeps a kit with a trowel, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. — Hannah Singleton, SELF, 8 June 2022 Her principal utensil is a knife, but in a sense, Melanie Kehoss also uses a trowel. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 June 2022 Apply the adhesive using a 3/16-inch trowel, working on one side of your layout’s centerline, closest to the countertop. — Sal Vaglica, USA TODAY, 8 May 2022 The two use a trowel to scrape up rock and dirt, and then a small brush to dust off the pieces removed from the hole that’s been dug there. — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2022 Slowly use your putty knife to spread a layer of joint compound across the wood, then use a trowel to create your own line designs. — Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Mar. 2022 To find it, visitors will be able to use a new marker: a monumental sculpture in the shape of a trowel by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, scheduled to be installed on Friday. — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022 Add some peat moss and elemental sulfur to each hole for the blueberries and mix with a trowel. — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2022 Pull the soil back with a small trowel, your hands, or a chopstick or pencil (for tiny seedlings) and tuck the plant in by gently pushing the earth back in place around the roots. — Emily Murphy, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Refractory Cement, Brick: Rutland Fire Clay Black Furnace Cement was troweled into the sink to protect it. — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 2 Jan. 2020 Cleverly, though, the movie’s writer, series creator Julian Fellowes, finds an unexpected new layer to trowel onto all the displacement angst. — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019 The indoor-outdoor floor plan feels light and airy with white oak floors, troweled plaster walls and high ceilings. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019 Jay Longino’s screenplay lards all the hoop action and comedy with troweled-on sentimentality and even a little romance — a little in this case still being too much. — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018 The treatment also distinguishes the living room from the dining area and contrasts with the troweled-concrete floor. — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018 Rooms feature both Oaxacan tiles and troweled concrete. — Jennifer Fernandez, WSJ, 8 June 2018 Drywall will be thinner and more uniform than plaster, which is usually troweled right up to the electrical box. — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018 In addition to Chip and Jo painting the antiquarian island, the couple also finished the Romanesque cabinet by troweling a hard slab of concrete on top. — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2017 See More

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