Sentence examples for like a mallet from inspiring English sources
Muddled and often infuriating, "Human Smoke" sounds its single, solemn note incessantly, like a mallet striking a kettle drum over and over.
It felt like a mallet striking the skin of a bass drum, a strange way of showing affection, and I kept my eyes closed through the operation.
We always knew he was going to have to cut himself free one day but it still comes at you like a mallet.
Form: it looks like a mallet with wheels that's been "pimped" by someone whose mittens are still on strings, and it has the expression you imagine Bertie Bassett would have when experiencing rectal thermometry for the first time.
Thump, thump, thump came the rhetorical questions, sounding suspiciously like a mallet hitting nails into the lid of a coffin.
It is blue and looks like a hammer or mallet.
It's more like playing with a mallet than with a stick".
Still the carpenter's son, he refashions traditional instruments to suit the Western tonal scale and hooks them up to amplifiers: a one-string fiddle, a long bamboo flute, a yak horn, played with a mallet, like a cowbell.
"Maria -- she's cute, blond," said one man, leaning on a tightly furled umbrella like a polo mallet, to a friend, setting him up with a dinner party date for the weekend.
It's not long before the percussive soundtrack takes its toll; after a character climbing the stairs sounds like a leather mallet being pounded into a wall, one wonders if the sound technicians were intentionally sabotaging the film.
Juli Inkster is a friend of mine and I watched her make all those putts in the Open and I said, 'I've got to get me one of those.' " Purtzer describes himself as "too much of a traditionalist" to go to one of those long putters that looks like a polo mallet.
