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Example sentences for "bolted"

Lexicographically close words:
bolster; bolstered; bolstering; bolsters; bolt; bolters; bolting; bolts; boltsprit; bolus
  1. It was in a massive gilt frame, firmly bolted to the wall.

  2. It is of the double-sided self-docking type, on the principle known as the “bolted sectional.

  3. While this work was in progress, sections of the steel tube began to arrive and were bolted together, so as to be ready to be swung into position as soon as the place was cleared.

  4. For when Sir Tristram had summoned the treasurer of that place, he brought Sir Tristram down into the vaults of the castle and there he beheld seven strong chests bolted and locked.

  5. So he ran into the chapel and shut to that door and another door and locked and bolted them both, and set a heavy bar of wood across both of them so that for a while he was safe.

  6. But he bolted as soon as he heard our door open, and was out of the house before you were half-way down.

  7. He bolted into the street, ran away, and never came back.

  8. The horse became furious, reared, kicked, plunged, and bolted like a deer, with all his four feet off the ground at once.

  9. She bolted the outer-door of her apartment as soon as Mr. Ratcliffe left her, and descended to the garden by a separate stair of communication which opened to her dressing-room.

  10. She tried to drive him in double harness with the barrister until they both bolted in opposite directions; then Lane came out here, and the other man, Waring, quietly retired to the country; then she married George Oakleigh.

  11. Three shadowy forms moved out to the level floor of the ravine, hesitated a split-second, then bolted for the opposite side.

  12. Thirty feet from the shore he bolted to the pony's bare back, wheeled the animal abruptly about, and came forward at a brisk trot.

  13. Captain Banwell was thrown from his horse which was hit, and the remainder of the chargers immediately bolted across a field.

  14. First he bolted with the Padre half-way from Mazingarbe to Labourse, when he finally pulled him up and dismounted.

  15. Then she turned and bolted from the room, leaving behind her a dumbfounded trio of young women.

  16. Elsie turned and bolted straight for her couch bed.

  17. I bolted my door, put on my greatcoat, and placed my pistols one in each pocket.

  18. She bolted the door of communication, and when she turned it was with such a pretty penitence in her face and attitude, that I was ready to throw myself at her feet.

  19. At the same moment, as if Jeanne's voice had indeed evoked Cayrol, a heavy step was heard approaching along the gallery, a hand tried to open the bolted door.

  20. Serge bolted the door, through which Pierre had passed, and which alone communicated with the other apartments.

  21. Meat was no longer issued raw, to be imperfectly cooked before a ward fire and bolted gluttonously, the whole two pounds at one sitting.

  22. He next set up as a fraudulent lottery office keeper, and bolted with a big prize.

  23. He waited till the last sound of the church-bells had died away, then rose and bolted the house door.

  24. My house is barred and bolted night and day.

  25. The horse, which lost one of the red slippers of its hind feet in consequence, then bolted off like mad, while Simplex yelled like a cockney horseman on a runaway nag, tugged at the reins, and implored the laughing crowd to stop the beast.

  26. The others sprang out ahead of him, and Pelliter closed and bolted the door.

  27. When he came in with the dogs Pelliter locked and bolted the door.

  28. The horse, astonished at such treatment, bolted a little way, Savage sawing at its mouth.

  29. Having delivered this home thrust Hans bolted round a corner and disappeared, while I waited trembling to see what happened to his adversary.

  30. The cow bolted to the right as quickly as it could, which was not very fast, and the camel bolted to the left with such convulsive bounds that we were nearly thrown off its back.

  31. As it happens I was wide awake half an hour before the dawn and lay with my eyes fixed upon that door, which I bolted myself last night.

  32. From the way the dogs act I should say he's bolted into the house.

  33. But I should rather enjoy that than otherwise, if only Teddy hadn't bolted in this rotten way.

  34. This was not bolted nor yet shut; it was merely ajar, and so I left it.

  35. The back door, too, is bolted and chained on the inside, and they can hardly have entered the way I did--ugh!

  36. I think I had, indeed," replied Courtenay, as he bolted out of the gun-room door.

  37. It therefore made no difference upon which I began, as they all were to be cut out before I bolted them together.

  38. All are now bolted together; and, with the exception of a little dubbing away here and there, a little gingerbread work, and a coat of paint, she is ready for launching.

  39. The stranger bolted up against him with a savage face.

  40. The door was shut and bolted behind them, and darkness fell upon the earth.

  41. I was following the spoor of a lion just now, but it got up between the rocks and bolted away before I could shoot.

  42. While this inquiry was going on, he bolted too.

  43. All our assailants bolted into the bushes and long grass the instant after firing, save two, one of whom was about to discharge a musket and the other an arrow, when arrested by the fire of the second boat.

  44. All of a sudden I heard a shout from the bows, bolted upon deck, and there, sure enough, was a black object right ahead, with the surf shooting over it.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bolted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.