1. Dowels and broom handles are useful.

2. He whacked his pants leg with the dowel.

3. Depending on what profile you want to achieve,(/doweling.html) you may also need to improvise with lengths of dowel or similar implements.

4. If you're feeling really adventurous try making your own flags using dowelling and cotton cloth or strong paper.

5. Ram a smaller length of dowel with a hollowed-out point dipped in Vaseline into it.

6. On a panel door, avoid the jointing dowels on the centre rail.

7. The dowel is gripped in a drill, and run at low speed, with a little pressure.

8. Holly was inspecting the wooden dowel on the staircase with the intensity of an archaeologist with a shard.

9. John twisted soft iron wire around some thick dowelling, whittled to a taper, to make candleholders.

10. Use connecting dowels to join beads of each section together 4.

11. Sandbar willows grow as straight as dowels in the gray-black mud along the banks.