Sentence examples for sawhorse from inspiring English sources

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sawhorse

noun

A device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material (for example, timber), especially during cutting with a saw or similar device.

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In the parlor, the principal adornments are two saddles, each in a corner on a sawhorse.

Only his orange pants were starting to be visible, the faraway base of a sawhorse.

In another project, Arcangel had connected, via computer, a digital drawing tablet to a second, larger plotter, which was resting on a makeshift sawhorse.

He was good with his hands, he said, as he bent over a sawhorse in the scene dock, and Kitty flicked a glance at him to see what he meant — but all he meant was that he was good at making things.

Only on 46th Street west of 6th was there a vigorous demonstration of purpose and responsibility--yellow lights blinking orange flags flapping, clouds of steam tumbling from a striped smokestack, and every sawhorse doing its job.

On the strip of lawn between his sidewalk and the street, a sawhorse sat next to a safety cone.

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The cubicle is replaced by an open sawhorse-style table; white stands in for brown.

Another of his pieces is a sawhorse-leg table made entirely out of glass.

It is a huge bronze triangle suspended from the ceiling with an aluminum sawhorse-looking thing and a bunch of little metal lumps.

The trestles may be of special design or simply wooden sawhorses of the type used by carpenters.

A collection point is nothing more than a couple of litters on sawhorses, a hand-washing station composed of a steel basin and a jerrican hung in a wooden frame, and a small desk for paperwork.

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