How to Use mallet in a Sentence

mallet

noun

• The team cheered as Bell grabbed the mallet and tapped the gong.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2020
• Use the coarse side of a meat mallet to pound the conch meat.
  — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 May 2018
• The iPhonekiller is a mallet designed to smash the iPhone up good.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 28 May 2010
• Tamp them down to the right height with a rubber mallet.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Next, give the thighs a good pounding with a meat mallet.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 May 2020
• With a meat mallet or rolling pin, pound the pork pieces to a thickness of 3/8-inch.
  — Jessica Battilana, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Use a mallet or heavy pan to pound out the halves to an even ¼-inch thickness.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
• Pare by hand to smooth the walls of the mortise and use a mallet to chisel the ends of the mortise square [8].
  — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2020
• Use a mallet or rolling pin to pound them to a thickness of about 1/4-inch.
  — Ellie Krieger, charlotteobserver, 1 Aug. 2017
• Pound the pork to ¼-inch thickness, using the meat mallet.
  — CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
• The game consists of hitting your ball with the mallet through each of these pegs.
  — Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
• Let cool, then crush the roasted beans with a mallet or rolling pin.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2022
• Each tap of the mallet led him to another key out of tune.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
• Use a meat mallet or other heavy kitchen tool to break open the salt crust and discard the crust.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• With a mallet or rolling pin, pound chicken thighs to ¼ inch thick.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Her cheek, pressed to his ribs, was indented by the mallet of his heart.
  — Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• She was struck by a short clip of Hoffmann out on the ice, dressed in a two-piece and wielding a mallet.
  — The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
• With a hammer or mallet, gently tap the plugs in place.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2024
• According to the study, Bruno's punch force was equal to a blow from a mallet with a mass of 13 pounds swung at 20mph.
  — Brian Roberts, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• Inside the tiny, bright cafe, Qiu and co-owner Amy Kuang use a mallet to pound the fresh fruit by hand.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
• George jumps over a low partition and hits a ball with a mallet!
  — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 11 June 2018
• With a meat mallet or a rolling pin, pound the pieces into cutlets about ¼-inch thick.
  — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Using the flat-side of a meat mallet or bottom of a heavy saucepan, pound the chicken breasts to 1/2 inch thick.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 12 Feb. 2018
• Close the bag, and then tap the candy with a rolling pin or mallet to crush it to small attractive bits.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• For one thing, Mr. Flores, who is 30, holds the mallet by its edge, not by the knob, the way most people do, which is the mark of a novice.
  — Allie Conti, New York Times, 19 July 2019
• Here’s the mallet that makes her guitar chime like a dulcimer.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
• Using a mallet or the bottom of a saucepan, evenly pound them to 1/8-inch thick.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019
• Also get a short, thick piece of wood, such as a 12-inch length of two-by-four, and a rubber mallet.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• The clip eventually shows Joker holding a mallet and using it to smash the judge's head.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 July 2024
• In his sculptural work, the labor-intensive process involves hand-carving wood forms, flattening metal with a mallet, cutting hundreds of metal strips with tin snips, and smoothing and sanding rough elements with a metal grinder.
  — Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024