Example Sentences

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At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Santoor is a trapezoid-shaped stringed musical instrument, similar to a dulcimer, which is played with mallets.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025

They had all the equipment at the ready: crowbars, shovels, and mallets.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

As three people struck wood with mallets under a viaduct in Queens during the morning rush hour one day in the fall, a man walked up and asked, “What do you call this music?”

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Pet’s footsteps were singing through the floor like mallets striking an ocean of drumskin, and they were heading straight for her parents’ bedroom.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi