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Recent Examples of mallet
To prove Joseph has disappeared, Elijah then hits the lantern with a mallet (begging the question of what school administrator okayed this in the first place).
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 May 2025
Crush candies by hitting firmly with a meat mallet or small heavy skillet.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2025
From butcher knives to mallets to plates, Eve and her assailant use just about everything but the kitchen sink against one another, including the kitchen cooler.
—Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
The Penzance Musical, an exquisitely funny, meticulously concocted theatrical pavlova—the 1879 operetta The Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan—has been whacked with a mallet.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 May 2025
Crush candies by hitting firmly with a meat mallet or small heavy skillet.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2025
From butcher knives to mallets to plates, Eve and her assailant use just about everything but the kitchen sink against one another, including the kitchen cooler.
—Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
The Penzance Musical, an exquisitely funny, meticulously concocted theatrical pavlova—the 1879 operetta The Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan—has been whacked with a mallet.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
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According to police, on the day of the attack, Robert Babin got into a heated argument with his mother and repeatedly hit her with a hammer, KRIV reported.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 July 2025
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But there is no man with a hammer; the happy man lives at his ease, and trivial daily cares faintly agitate him like the wind in the aspen-tree — and all goes well.—
Philip Metres
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Mayor Michelle Wu gleefully took a sledgehammer to the walls of an eight-story South Boston building to break ground on the city’s largest office-to-residential conversion project to date, accounting for 77 of the 141 such units under construction.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
17 July 2025
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Blunt instrument The Supreme Court’s new test, with its implicit suggestion that coercion is found in exposure to materials that go against central tenets of parental religion, is more sledgehammer than scalpel.—
Stephen L. Carter,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
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Check your trees regularly, especially in late spring and early summer, when beetle activity is at its highest.—
James Campbell,
Mercury News,
28 July 2025
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The beetles feed on a variety of deciduous plants, but the grubs usually are the biggest issue for homeowners.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
27 July 2025
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The half ended with the Free Jacks once again putting the Sabercats under pressure, trying to force their way over the tryline through a rolling maul, and twice failing to score.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Minutes later, Hanover scored back-to-back tries with near identical mauls down the sideline.—
Marcello Rossetti,
Boston Herald,
14 June 2025
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When Trump signed the bill into law on July 4, Johnson gave the President a memento to mark the triumph: his Speaker’s gavel.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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After the auctioneer’s gavel fell at 7 million euros — meaning that, after fees, a then-anonymous telephone buyer would pay the equivalent of $10.1 million for the bag — cheers broke out.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
1 Aug. 2025
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These toads are a non-native species introduced to control sugar cane pests almost a century ago.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Aug. 2025
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Raised in a small town in Puebla, Mexico, her parents grew sugar cane to support a family that struggled financially.—
Olivia Cyrus,
Sacbee.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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