How To Use Trowel In A Sentence
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To build yourself, you need to know one end of the trowel from the other have some tools, some spanish & some time in country.
Houses in Lake Cjhapala
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The trowel is the key tool in the kit of any archaeologist.
2009 Field Report 2 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison
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First, a scratch coat is troweled onto the lath; the plaster oozes through the lath and grips the backing when it hardens.
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The traditional gardeners' tools of spades, forks and trowels have been replaced by sketchpads, hammers and nails.
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He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.
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These can simply be hand-filled and troweled smooth as you lay your bricks.
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This ‘lays the floor in,’ creating the best conditions for final troweling operations.
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For roughly cutting bricks the large trowel is used; for neater work such as facings, the bolster and club-hammer; the cold chisel is for general cutting away, and for chases and holes.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Tanysiptera galatea, the common paradise-kingfisher, is an arresting bird with the unmistakably huge head and the trowel-like beak characteristic of kingfishers generally.
The Song of The Dodo
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Probably one of the most-used small tools is the trowel, which is ideal for digging small holes for planting and transplanting annuals, vegetables and other smaller plants.
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Knowles recommends waterproofing the blocks by troweling on two coats of stucco.
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They were shown the plan of a building, and the ‘greater’ members, furnished with trowels, were obliged to build it in edibles, the ‘lesser’ acting as hodmen, and bringing materials.
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In some cases an additional texture coat of finish material is applied over the initial finish coat and tooled with a trowel or other tool.
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I help with the maintenance; we weed, then wield machetes and trowels to chop back the viny grass that threatens to overtake bare soil.
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Plasters and stuccos are spread by hand or trowel, or sprayed on with a mechanical sprayer or pump.
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Excessive trowelling causes segregation of the aggregates and should be avoided.
1.1 The role and purpose of irrigation
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Now, if those trowel-botherers had been after a bag of gold coins or an ancient jewelled dagger, I might understand.
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How many hours in front of the mirror trowelling it on?
Times, Sunday Times
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One-piece aluminum or steel trowels often have handles covered with soft rubber or plastic grips.
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Utterly maintenance free, it's a warm natural finish, sometimes with salmon- or ochre-colored striations, and can be troweled smooth or scraped vertically for a rough finish.
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Spread the adhesives on the wall using the flat side of the trowel.
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When planting spring flowering bulbs in a container, put plants in first so bulbs are not damaged by the trowel.
The Sun
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I'm encouraged to dig deep with a silver trowel and fill my polythene bag.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remove a core of soil from the lawn with a trowel or shovel and measure the depth of the thatch, which is the layer of dead grass above the soil line.
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Keep trowelling of the bed to a minimum: it will draw water out of the mortar mix, weakening the bonds.
Chapter 6
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You know it's there, but you don't feel like it's trowelled on and might crack if you smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.
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If the kids are old enough to garden, they can usually manage to use a hand trowel and fork.
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Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.
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You can brush, trowel, throw, squirt, drip or pour paint onto a canvas, or stain it with diluted medium.
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He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.He really laid it on with a trowel.
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First, in late winter and early spring gently cultivate the soil around the base of the tree with a trowel or hoe.
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Overlay cements are sticky and require experience in terms of troweling a finish.
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Using your chalk line as a guide, spread the mortar with a notched trowel over a 2x5-foot section of the floor.
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A full bed of adhesive should be fully troweled to within 1 inch of each edge on clean and dry boards using a 1/4-inch deep, notched trowel.
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If you like, an edging trowel will give you a nice bullnose finish on your corners.
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The old lady with the shawl and trowel adores her frowzy garden and in the vanished days of the empire-the pulse of the explorer quickened at the sight of a desert floor.
Bringing It All Back Home
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When planting spring flowering bulbs in a container, put plants in first so bulbs are not damaged by the trowel.
The Sun
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Moisten your plywood hawk and load it up with mortar. Hold the hawk against the wall and use a long, thin trowel to pack mortar into joints.
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However, I always love to receive gardening gadgets; so if your mother is a fanatical gardener you could get her a new trowel, some copper plant labels, a trug to stash cut flowers in, a plant pot or a twine dispenser.
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Load some stucco on a hawk and then onto your trowel.
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I watched Dave’s shadow rock back on his funboard, spin, nose in the grainy air, lunge forward, and hook onto a wall of water that stretched across the cove and looked like it was smoothed with a mason’s trowel.
Kook
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This involves placing either a powdered or liquid release after color has been troweled, and rolling a large texture roller over the concrete surface.
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Lift the bulb carefully with a hand trowel without bruising it and leave it on the soil to let the outer skin dry and harden.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it isn't a hymn sheet he's handing round, it's what he calls notre petite aide-memoire a one-page conversion table setting out, for the comfort and convenience of our readers, what is understood in the real world by such lighthearted expressions as shovel, trowel, pickaxe, heavy and light wheelbarrows and the like.
The mission song
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Pour the liquid latex into the sand and cement mixture and mix it completely with a trowel or other tool.
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Using the slender trowel, I believe called a "jointer" or "joint trowel" (keep in mind my entire knowledge of masonry has been gleaned from catching the odd episode of DIY Network's "Rock Solid") I shaved off excess mud from the joint, did my best to smooth the mortar, and used the brush to finish.
OmniNerd
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Not very; I came ashore here to see if I couldn't find some clams," added Laud, as he held up a clam-digger he carried in his hand -- a kind of trowel fixed in a shovel-handle.
The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder
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Using a notched trowel, spread the adhesive over one square area, not going over the reference lines of that area.
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They'd cleared everything out pretty well; the only things they'd missed were a feather duster in the utility cupboard and a trowel stuck through the rafters in the shed.
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Using a notched trowel and working in small sections, spread 1/4 inch of grout or tile adhesive on the table surface.
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Grabbing a hand trowel, he turns over the pebbly loam looking for worms for his plot.
Community Gardens Thrive in Urban Jungle
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The technique is very simple, use a rubber faced trowel to spread the grout and a cotton cloth to clean the excess grout from the tiles afterwards.
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On each is trowelled a tumulus of smooth liver paste.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anything just so I don't have to go back on the hod and trowel again!
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A large blister came on the heel of her right palm, from forcing the trowel handle down to prise bricks up.
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A couple of spades, a trowel and a calabash were their only tools, but our adventurer was a knowing man, and "knowledge is power.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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If you are building large slabs, could you survive without a laser screed or a power trowel?
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Chris sighed and kept on digging his trowel into the earth.
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With the trowel, I commenced scooping diesel oil sludge into the bucket.
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For young children, an old dessert spoon and ladle double as a trowel and spade, while a washing-up liquid bottle with extra holes can become a watering can.
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After the finishers completed the troweling process, they covered the slab with polyethylene sheets for a 7-day curing period.
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Not trowelling it on keeps your skin looking better for longer, because it gets a chance to breathe.
Times, Sunday Times
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When not live coding, Click lives with a trowel and four chiliasts in Dorset, Essex.
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Final troweling operations are completed with riding trowels.
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A slick finish won't get dusty, but be careful not to get air-entrained concrete where air can get entrapped below the troweled surface, leading to spalls.
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MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even as cease-fire negotiations continued in Georgia's capital, Moscow's tanks were still trowelling (ph) the western front.
CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008
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If this happens, loosen the soil with a trowel and replant the bulb, taking care not to damage the roots.
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Finally, as the concrete further sets or stiffens, troweling operations begin, if required.
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Place the hawk alongside the spot board and with the trowel in your working hand scoop some plaster onto the board about the size and shape of a loaf of bread.
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Use a small trowel or soil knife to dig a hole slightly larger than the herb's pot and collect the soil in a bucket.
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Troweling nichos into smooth curves with no trowel marks is near impossible, and can take even experienced plasterers huge chunks of time.
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_Plackett_, a tool contrived as a kind of trowel for smoothing and shaping the clay.
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
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When troweling it on, push and move the material, creating varying textures.
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Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel.
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Use a trowel or dibber to make a hole twice their size and plant with the flat base at the bottom.
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Maybe five year olds, the ones troweling up dirt, practicing the long-forgotten art of making mud pies, daring each other to snort an earthworm for that Annelida high.
Archive 2010-03-01
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There are still layers of noise and sonic adventurousness, but now it is far more subtle in the mix, applied with a delicate brush rather than a trowel.
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Use a trowel if you must, and be sure to wear gloves, otherwise your palm will blister.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once the tile is flexible, apply adhesive to the floor with a notched trowel and drop the tile into place.
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As a test, check soil moisture just before the system is due to come on by using a soil probe or digging down 3 to 6 inches (depending on size of plant) with a trowel.
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It was made of oak, knurled on the grip, lathe-troweled with three rings below the tip, drilled through the center and filled with a steel bolt, its black paint nicked, a leather thong threaded through the handle.
The Glass Rainbow
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This specification requires that a trowel finish surface be smooth and free of trowel marks.
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Within five minutes the computer was inside my briefcase, and I was walking out to the vegetable garden with a trowel in my hand and a grin on my face.
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Brian was a brilliant excavator - I remember attending a lecture he gave on his excavations at Dunbar, and thinking I ought just to throw my trowel away.
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The rugged, multipurpose implement serves as a trowel, dibble, hand fork, and hoe.
Avital Binshtock: Grow a Conscience: How to Garden Green
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Mix cement, aggregate, and coloring by hand and fill mold to match specifications of product being finished, using trowel, tamper, and scraper.
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Use gloved hands and a small trowel to add or subtract rock dust as needed to make sure each stone is at precisely the right height.
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It's a veritable hardware store of saw blades, pickaxe blades, trowels and awls.
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General manager Rob McSporran said the company dubbed the trowel "iPood!" and registered it as a trademark in Australia in October 2006.
The Age News Headlines
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Use a putty knife or a small notched trowel to apply adhesive to the back of the tile - your tile dealer can help you with the right adhesive for your situation - and press the tile into place.
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Crevice trowels have the narrowest blades, about 1 1/4 inches wide.
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In the car, I keep small pots and a trowel in a cardboard box and I did dig some native plants from wet ditches for bog plants.
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The wearing coat is next divided into sections corresponding with the sections into which the base is divided, by cutting through it with a trowel guided by a straight edge and then rounding the edges of the cut with a special tool called a jointer and shown by Fig. 117.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
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The cement becomes sticky, and troweling often causes damage by pulling the cement loose from the concrete, causing bubbles.
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They are made by local artisans, as are the trowel, dibble (used for punching holes in the soil in order to plant seeds), and line reel, which enables one to plant in neat, straight rows.
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In the April of that year, they delivered a ‘small knurled inkstand, a large dolphin trowel, a set of vases, a set of chased canisters, three escallop shells and three dish crosses’.
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Wet the joint and then apply new mortar into the joint with a small masonry trowel or putty knife.
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The trowel is the instrument with which these honours -- and these fortunes -- are won.
Personality in Literature
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Nature is 'sheep's wool on barbed wire,' equipment such as a harrow pin, sledge-head, or trowel, as if its center were protrusive objects and not recessive vistas.
Heaney Agonistes
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Once I have the dandelions out, by good old-fashioned trowelling, I'll probably bury myself in my own garden.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Many of his clients are recently retired baby boomers who have given up their fancy threads and skyscraper offices for gloves, a trowel, and a garden in the country.
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Vanessa did the digging with a trowel, discarding obvious junk and storing everything else in plastic buckets for later examination.
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You are now ready for the next finishing step - waiting for initial setting to occur and the bleed water to rise and evaporate - followed by troweling, edging, and jointing.
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Slabs that will be heavily troweled should not contain entrained air because of the probability that delamination will result.
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After tooling, cut off mortar tailings with trowel and brush excess mortar burrs and dust from face of brick.
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Wet the joint and then apply new mortar into the joint with a small masonry trowel or putty knife.
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First, a scratch coat is troweled onto the lath; the plaster oozes through the lath and grips the backing when it hardens.
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Use a small trowel to spread plaster onto a piece of muslin.
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Yet, uncomplaining, Brandon dug until the trowel dropped from his exhausted hand.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
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The purpose of this tool is to reduce local high spots caused by any imperfections in form setting and from the power floating and troweling operations.
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You can remove the debris by hand, with a spatula, a large spoon, a gutter scoop, or small trowel.
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He walked up the wrecked garden, where the mali, bending down with the rain splashing on his bare back, was trowelling holes for zinnias.
Burmese Days
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From the off, the bricklayer trowelled on the pressure and built a two-set lead.
The Sun
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Imagine being able to go outside in February and March and actually use a rototiller, or better yet, use a hand trowel.
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If you like, an edging trowel will give you a nice bullnose finish on your corners.
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Anyway, thanks to all for the continued comments and letters -- my apologies for not getting back to you with my usual alacrity, but I assure you I'll be trowelling through the comments and gmail updates all throughout the weekend.
Archive 2005-06-26
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Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.
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Spread a bed of mortar to a little more than the prescribed thickness (the string line will guide you in this) and roughen the mortar surface by making a shallow furrow with the point of the trowel.
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Use a trowel or dibber to make a hole twice their size and plant with the flat base at the bottom.
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Even if you read the virulent anti-Clinton haters’ description of what you apparently mean by “Chinagate,” they trowel on the ominous, dark hints of miscreance and criminality under the surface, but they have not one single fact to back up their insinuations.
Think Progress » Breaking: Rove Meeting With Special Prosecutor About Leak Case
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The bulb planter breaks the soil up nicely and is much easier than trying to use a trowel.
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HALLUMS: And you could hear them trowelling this concrete over the door, and then they would shove a freezer over the top of that to hide where the door was.
CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009
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A thin layer of thinset adhesive is applied to the top of the plywood using a notched trowel, then the cement board is put in place and secured with flathead screws that are countersunk into the surface.
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For most gardeners, repotting an old houseplant needs no more than a trowel and a plastic planter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hand-weed with a trowel tip or soil knife, making sure to get the roots, which are especially irksome in dry soil.
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For a start, its façade doesn't need to be heavily trowelled with filler to make it look vaguely presentable.
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The most common finish for interiors has a smooth finish created by running a flat trowel over the top.
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I've never felt out of place, having picked up a trowel or carried a hod for a living.
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She then troweled a thin layer of overlay cement into the unmasked areas, coloring it afterwards.
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Fill or slightly overfill the crack and then smooth it with a wetted trowel or block of wood.
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Dig into the top 2 to 3 inches of soil with a trowel.
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Her sister had brought a trowel and Constance's trug was soon generously filled.
THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
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The latrine, being provenience oriented, requires more meticulous troweling than plowzone units.
2009 Field Report 2 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison
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Provide high-quality small-scale tools such as trowel, cultivator, rake, and hoe.
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There's a fine, often surprising selection of large, angry, mature abstractions, with their jagged, flamelike shapes and troweled-on expanses of thick pigment, their labored surfaces seductive in the flood of light against warm concrete walls.
Irascible Still
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In 1962, entomologist Jean Ruelle — as if possessed by the unborn spirit of Rachel Whiteread — filled a mature Macrotermes michaelseni mound with cementitious slurry, waited until it hardened, and then eroded every bit of the sculpted soil with water and trowels.
Landscapes as organs of extended physiology
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My pointed trowel is the artist's brush that will stroke and pry uncover and ecpose the old mission wall.
Pony Positive Day Two
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Using a trowel, apply plaster over the hole covering the patch and filling the entire hole.
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Follow the manufacturer's instructions for specific preparation, adhesive and trowel use, and drying time.
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These women cultivated with simple tools, a hoe, trowel, or shovel in one hand and seeds or fertilizer in the other hand.
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At last a return for all that heavy labour, trowelling, surveying and drawing.
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Small hand trowels, secateurs or a new pair of gardening gloves are also favourites.
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I want to see jail time, and I want to see them serve nothing but the putrid sludge they have been trowelling out.
CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2009
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Lift the bulb carefully with a hand trowel without bruising it and leave it on the soil to let the outer skin dry and harden.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such weighing and mixing and chopping and grating, such dusting and washing and polishing, such snipping and weeding and trowelling and other small gardening, such making and mending and folding and airing, such diverse arrangements, and above all such severe study!
Our Mutual Friend
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It’s a tight labor market, and we are warned by a gringo old-timer, “Every guy around this town who owns a pencil is an architect, and every guy who owns a trowel is a contractor.”
Gringos in Paradise
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She stood there weeding with a tiny trowel, her figure slightly warped and distorted by the mottle of the glass.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous
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As you slide out the trowel, push any scattered soil back into the hole, then water the area to settle the soil.
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Technically, you are supposed to spread the adhesive with a notched trowel.
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Julia continues to dig deeper with a small shovel, a garden trowel.
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I catch the motion with which a man tosses water from a brush onto a setting cement curb, while another trowels the cement to an olive shine.
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With the trowel, he dug a little hole, making it just deep enough that the grain sprout would still be able to push through the dirt on top of it.
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Using a notched trowel and working in small sections, spread 1/4 inch of grout or tile adhesive on the table surface.
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Mound Fire: Construction of a mound fire can be accomplished by using simple tools: a garden trowel, large stuff sack and a ground cloth or plastic garbage bag.
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The outer edges were rounded and smoothed with a small edging trowel, which gives a very attractive finish.
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As you lay the bricks, use the edge of the trowel to cut off excess mortar; this can be returned to the mortarboard.
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We tend to use the same few tools spade, fork, rake, trowel, secateurs and watering can throughout our gardening careers.
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Since a mechanical digger is no substitute for a trowel, this is not happening.
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Pour the liquid latex into the sand and cement mixture and mix it completely with a trowel or other tool.
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The mason must lift each block from no more than five piles of block and all trowels of mortar from no more than four spot boards.
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Finally, as the concrete further sets or stiffens, troweling operations begin, if required.
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I carefully troweled the last of the dirt around the spindly little plant.
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The gardener has done magnificent work - and it seems strange to use that term for the old scientist who is equally at home with his hydroponics and gene-fixing as with fertilisers and a trowel.
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But tak care, Alec -- "here Thomas paused from his work, and turning towards the boy with a trowelful of mortar in his hand, spoke very slowly and solemnly --" tak ye care that ye beir no malice against the maister.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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Shovels, spades, hoes, and trowels are usually sold with roughly beveled edges.
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I climbed the ladder with my float, trowel and plaster and reached upwards towards the missing section of my ceiling.
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Items on the list include skip hire, digger, rotavator, topsoil, compost, bark, spades, forks, shovels, trowels, pickaxes, watering cans, trees, flowers, shrubs and vegetables.
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I was trowelling down through stiff clay which is quite hard on the wrist and suddenly the soil gave way to reveal a hard surface made up of tiny bits of red tile.
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It can make you laugh without anyone falling over, and it can make you cry without resorting to laid-on-with-a-trowel schmaltz.
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Now, if those trowel-botherers had been after a bag of gold coins or an ancient jewelled dagger, I might understand.
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When visiting, bring a pot or two of tulips and a trowel.
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Depending on the screeding method, parking lot pavement may be bullfloated or finished with a check rod, but it should not be troweled.
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Remove the bricks and use a pointed trowel to apply mortar to the concrete base, but do not go beyond the chalk lines.
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For shallow or small repairs, use a wide putty knife or trowel to apply a vinyl patching compound in multiple layers as directed by the maker.
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To help you determine planting depths and plant spacing, garden trowels often come with measurements right on the metal.
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Use a trowel if you must, and be sure to wear gloves, otherwise your palm will blister.
Times, Sunday Times
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Get yourself some thin spread adhesive and a 1/32 notch trowel and use that, the self stick tile are cheap and the glue is iffy at best so use that for insurance and you won't have the problem of the tile not sticking to the new underlayment.
