How to Use sawhorse in a Sentence

sawhorse

noun
  • Bishop offers a pair of steel sawhorses set with red and black doll heads, toy tanks, and tiny houses.
    — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Fasten the legs to the sawhorse by marking 4 inches in from the ends of the I-beam.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Four construction workers are slivering planks of fresh plywood over a sawhorse.
    — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Streets leading to the course are closed, but on many of them, in most years, the only barrier is a blue, wooden sawhorse and a thin plastic tape.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Ellis went inside the storage room, dragged out a couple of sawhorses, and laid the plywood flat on top to make things easier for the mayor.
    — al, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Orange and white sawhorses and police barricades continued to block numerous streets around town.
    — Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
  • At Easter there were so many family members, her father created makeshift tables by laying boards on top of sawhorses.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Startups dotted South of Market, filling long-dormant warehouses with desks made of doors on sawhorses.
    — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2019
  • Those who knew Amelia in childhood recalled an adventurous tomboy, inclined to make toys out of packing boxes and sawhorses, eschewing dolls.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2017
  • With the bollards in place, Miller said public safety personnel will be able to divert other resources -- like wooden sawhorses commonly used during special events -- to add more protective measures to other parts of the French Quarter.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • For Cowboys, the stage was strewn with sand and gravel; two sawhorses were set up with blinking lights; and a recording made by Shepard and Mingus while driving around New Jersey with a tape recorder provided ambient street sounds for the show.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025

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