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mallet

noun

Definition of mallet

as in hammer

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Recent Examples of mallet Using a meat mallet or the bottom of a heavy skillet, pound the chicken to a uniform 1/2-inch thickness. — ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026 Learn to properly swing a mallet and glide across the field, or for the more confident rider, enjoy a day out playing with polo club members. — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 24 Aug. 2026 This makes things all the more disorienting when, near the final act, Greg’s leg is chomped off by an allosaurus mid-mallet-fight, before the dino proceeds to eat him headfirst. — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026 In this 1970 photo, a 9-year-old Diana is holding a croquet mallet during a game at Itchenor, West Sussex. — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mallet

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Noun

Little Neil mustered his courage and brought a hammer down on the bird.

— S. M. Reznik, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Ever since the Dodgers dropped a billion-dollar hammer on Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the rest of baseball has melted down.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of hammer

Noun

The Europol report, meanwhile, revealed that these heists are increasingly using tools such as sledgehammers, axes, crowbars –– and even explosives.

— Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
In 2024 its activists broke into a factory owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems UK, smashing equipment with sledgehammers and crowbars.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of sledgehammer

Noun

Forests harbor twice as many trees as those better able to resist a beetle outbreak.

— Jennifer Oldham, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2026
The brothel is huge and painted black, like a plump beetle luxuriating in the sun, and the opulence of its internal decoration is matched by Kate herself.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of beetle

Noun

With the House narrowly split, just a few seats could determine which party holds the gavel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Levy shared the advice that Sheindlin gave him before the television icon handed off the gavel to her son.

— Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of gavel

Noun

Then pants, boots and cane and of course, the last is the cape.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026
Questions that have been proposed for removal deal with memory, fatigue, arthritis, difficulty walking and climbing stairs, as well as others about the use of hearing aids, canes, wheelchairs and scooters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

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