On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Trowel. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as dig or delve and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Trowel meaning
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Using Trowel
- The main meaning on this page is: A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. | A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc. | A tool used for smoothing a mold.
- Useful related words include: hand tool, dig, delve, cut into.
- In the example corpus, trowel often appears in combinations such as: trowel to, silver trowel, with trowel.
Context around Trowel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trowel
- In this selection, "trowel" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, silver, dessert, mini, insulation, judiciously and shaped stand out and add context to how "trowel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a silver trowel judiciously contrived and a silver trowel with an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trowel" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trowel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tragically, the dessert trowel has gone. (6 words)
Excavating with a trowel is a slow, but strangely relaxing process. (11 words)
The Rice trowel bayonet was declared obsolete by the US Army in December 1881. (14 words)
Plenty of newspapers across the north record how the foundation stone for the new chapel was laid on Friday, June 28, 1872, by Alderman Elwin of Sunderland, who used a silver trowel with an ivory handle which bore “a suitable inscription”. (41 words)
Optimal dimensions, characteristics, and strength Loose bricks For efficient handling and laying, bricks must be small enough and light enough to be picked up by the bricklayer using one hand (leaving the other hand free for the trowel). (38 words)
I will never forget his skills with a brick-layer’s trowel, hitting off the corners of the bricks, for a summer house, with half-timber work sides, in our back yard at 4843. (34 words)
Example sentences (15)
Belanger said that the heavy drilling has been completed on both sides of the building but there could be some noise due to the work to install and trowel insulation.
Tragically, the dessert trowel has gone.
Using the mini trowel to layer it only, there’s no question of love or hate here because it is simply delicious - both salty and sweet in the same bite.
Elizabeth Pease Nichol laid the foundation stone of the Mechanics Institute in Skinnergate, Darlington, on May 12, 1853, using “a silver trowel judiciously contrived to serve as a fish slice”.
Excavating with a trowel is a slow, but strangely relaxing process.
Plenty of newspapers across the north record how the foundation stone for the new chapel was laid on Friday, June 28, 1872, by Alderman Elwin of Sunderland, who used a silver trowel with an ivory handle which bore “a suitable inscription”.
There is a little variance in their designs, but most of them essentially boil down to a trowel-shaped wrist rest that clips over the bike's throttle.
Try digging them all out with a very sharp hand trowel - and follow the rhizomes, pulling them up as you go.
If you’re going to be re-potting plants and putting new ones into beds, you'll need a trowel.
I will never forget his skills with a brick-layer’s trowel, hitting off the corners of the bricks, for a summer house, with half-timber work sides, in our back yard at 4843.
He, however, said that some homeowners would use sand from the beach for plastering, but still finish the house with trowel plaster, which give a rougher finish than the sifted sand from Rabacca.
Use a trowel to force the mortar into the joint and smooth it off to match the rest of the wall.
Optimal dimensions, characteristics, and strength Loose bricks For efficient handling and laying, bricks must be small enough and light enough to be picked up by the bricklayer using one hand (leaving the other hand free for the trowel).
The Rice trowel bayonet was declared obsolete by the US Army in December 1881.
The trowel or spade bayonet was another multipurpose design, intended for use both as an offensive weapon as well as a digging tool for excavating entrenchments.
Common combinations with trowel
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- trowel to 2×
- silver trowel 2×
- with trowel 2×
- the trowel 2×