mallet

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Recent Examples of mallet In the films, West’s son Saint is shown in a wrestling ring, using a mallet to fend off aggressors over the course of 30 minutes. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025 The black-and-white films all feature 9-year-old Saint hitting wrestlers with a mallet, set to a new Ye album. Justin Curto, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025 Smashing a watermelon with a giant mallet to the messy delight of audiences, Leo Gallagher became one of the biggest comedy acts of the 1980s and shot to superstardom. Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025 The film depicts West’s son Saint West in a wrestling ring, taking on hoards of wrestlers by himself, armed with a toy mallet while the album plays in the background. Ethan Millman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mallet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mallet
Noun
  • Tariffs hammer tech Premarket moves among the Magnificent Seven tech stocks were broadly lower Wednesday, with Tesla (TSLA+17.81%) off 1% and Apple slipping 2% in early trading.
    Catherine Baab, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Over the last few years, Deadheads have reveled in videos of Weir working out in gyms and in the great outdoors with various weights and hammers.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • An ambitious new effort to reframe the U.S. approach to climate is taking a sledgehammer to shibboleths on the left and the right.
    Ben Geman, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Doing it with the ‘sledgehammer’ of a larger Tariff than 1930′s Smoot-Hawley, was bound to cause Turmoil in stocks, bonds, credit and commodities.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But instead of controlling destructive sugar cane beetle populations, the amphibians quickly became their own ecological catastrophe.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Another insect flagged in the report was the mountain pine beetle, which has been building populations along Colorado’s Front Rage and in other parts of the state.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • John Franklin-Myers mauls RT Rosengarten and gets sack, knocking Baltimore out of FG position.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Cama’s 7-point try box came in the 74th minute and was a result of the Legion muscling their way to a series of successful scrums, mauls and rucks before Cama punched it over inside the 5-meter line area.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • She was relegated to the cheap seats because her vote was needed to keep Johnson wedded to the gavel.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The trend could complicate the Democrats’ path to winning back control of the House in the 2026 midterms, when party leaders are optimistic about their chances of seizing the Speaker’s gavel after four years in the minority wilderness.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Cut Stems Back Using your bypass pruners, cut live canes back to 12 inches tall.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Green, who is Black, regularly uses a cane to walk around the Capitol and has done so for years.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Mallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mallet. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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