How to Use mallet in a Sentence

mallet

noun
  • Use the coarse side of a meat mallet to pound the conch meat.
    — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 May 2018
  • Crush into fine crumbs with a rolling pin or meat mallet.
    — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The team cheered as Bell grabbed the mallet and tapped the gong.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Does someone’s head get crushed with a mallet?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Let cool, then crush the roasted beans with a mallet or rolling pin.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2022
  • With a mallet or rolling pin, pound chicken thighs to ¼ inch thick.
    — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Use a mallet or heavy pan to pound out the halves to an even ¼-inch thickness.
    — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
  • George jumps over a low partition and hits a ball with a mallet!
    — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 11 June 2018
  • Place a piece of plastic wrap on top and use a meat mallet to flatten.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Here’s the mallet that makes her guitar chime like a dulcimer.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Her cheek, pressed to his ribs, was indented by the mallet of his heart.
    — Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The game consists of hitting your ball with the mallet through each of these pegs.
    — Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Then, pound the lid shut with a rubber mallet and store the paint upside down.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Use a mallet or rolling pin to pound them to a thickness of about 1/4-inch.
    — Ellie Krieger, charlotteobserver, 1 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • The iPhonekiller is a mallet designed to smash the iPhone up good.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 28 May 2010
  • 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
  • Using the flat side of a meat mallet or a rolling pin, pound pork to a ¼- to ½-inch thickness.
    — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Requires a hammer, mallet or rolling pin.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Crush the cinnamon with a kitchen mallet or rolling pin to break it into small pieces.
    — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2021
  • If your hull is aluminum, bang the drum slowly with a rubber mallet to knock out dents.
    — Popmech Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
  • This also prevents your meat mallet from getting dirty as well.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This also prevents your meat mallet from getting dirty as well.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Use a meat mallet to pound the chicken to an even thickness, about 1/2 inch thick.
    — Kia Damon, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Harry sustained a hand injury from a mallet.
    — Rachel Marlowe, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The sounds of the wooden mallet and bells are flat, compressed through my laptop speakers.
    — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 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
  • Using a mallet or the bottom of a saucepan, evenly pound them to 1/8-inch thick.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019

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