MALLET in a Sentence

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For MALLET, below is one of 8 sentences:
The commissary took up an iron mallet and knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantes as if struck on his heart.

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 Meanings and Examples of MALLET
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mallet
 n.  hammer; a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head; a light drumstick with a rounded head
Classic Sentence:
1  But the caulking mallet is full of it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 127. The Deck.
2  There I was immediately set to calking, and very soon learned the art of using my mallet and irons.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words of the President, who held a mallet in his hand.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
4  The Grand Master rapped with his mallet.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
5  The commissary took up an iron mallet and knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantes as if struck on his heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
6  Willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with mallets, the doors opened before them.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  The teaching states that the drum mallet should not be referred to as a 'beater' because of the suggestion of aggression contained in the word.
2  I agree that he was probably killed by a single blow and that wooden mallet on the table seems the likely weapon.