Thesaurus results for GAVEL

gavel

noun

as in hammer

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Recent Examples of gavel But in a matter of days, the race for control of the House — and the speaker’s gavel — was dramatically reset by back-to-back court rulings that wiped out the Democratic gains in Virginia and now threaten to erode Black representation by Democrats in the Deep South. —

Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 Two more of his former grails will go under the gavel at Phillips New York this summer. —

Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 May 2026 The American people deserve a Congress that fights for them, regardless of who holds the gavel. —

Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026 The mural depicted a wigged judge attacking a protester with his gavel. —

Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 2 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for gavel

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Iwerks worked with Bonnie Wild, a sound mixer whose credits include multiple Marvel and Star Wars projects, to piece together all of the sound from scratch — every creak of metal, every footstep and hammer, and every tractor driving across concrete.

— Matthew Jacobs, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
That might mean a good old-fashioned claw hammer and a smaller ball-peen hammer.

— Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026