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Example sentences for "nail"

Lexicographically close words:
naht; naiad; naie; naif; naig; naile; nailed; nailer; nailes; nailing
  1. Look here, Leslie, my old signet ring that scoundrel took from a nail over my chimney-piece.

  2. Get the skin on face and around mouth placed, then draw the neck skin tight and nail to the edge of the board with finishing brads an inch or more long.

  3. Nail through the margin of skin and paper into the edges of this.

  4. A nail through the top of skull will hold it temporarily till the lower jaw bones are placed and the whole held solid by packing the base of skull and jaws in a mass of soft plaster which will harden in a few minutes.

  5. Get two wire nails and nail these claws to a board, as shown in A.

  6. Now drive a long nail against back side of foot to keep it from sagging (C).

  7. And Saul held a spear in his hand and threw it, thinking to nail David to the wall" (1 Kings).

  8. Any one may be a victim, and you and I, by thoughtlessly passing on the deadly thing, may all unconsciously be driving another nail into a man's coffin.

  9. God rewards the gallant souls who keep their colours flying through every battle, even though they have to nail them up over a sorely damaged ship.

  10. If you aren't quick about it they'll nail you again as sure as eggs!

  11. I on the nail my Battels paid, The monster turn'd away dismay'd.

  12. This dart is made of a piece of soft wood about six inches long, and into the sharpened end a slim long nail is driven; the head may be nipped or filed off so that the point will stick into the ground or into a target.

  13. Use glue to hold these firm, and also to stick on to the center of the cross of wood a slice of cork, pierce a hole through the cork and the cross of wood, and through it run a nail with a fairly large head.

  14. Take three pieces of cork or three half reels, and glue or nail them to the deck--this will make a good hold for the masts.

  15. Rut a nail through, rather nearer your pinwheel than the middle of the stick.

  16. Fix your nail into the end of the other stick, and set the stick upright in the ground as in Figure 50.

  17. Tie the thread round the nail and run the nail into your stick.

  18. Make a hole in the center of your wheel and fix it strongly with a nail into a stick.

  19. If the nail is apt to split the stick you can put a reel on to the end of it and fix the nail into the stick through the hole of the reel.

  20. Fasten arms and legs to the body with a thick wire which works loosely in the holes, or with a thin nail which may be bent over at the point.

  21. It is a very good thing to put your nail through a large glass bead between the windmill and the stick.

  22. Now fit together the two halves and put a nail through the hole and fasten it into the end of a stick.

  23. A smith is ten miles off: they'll do without a nail or a staple.

  24. It had too the properties of a measure; for one nail was driven into it at the length of a foot; another at that of a yard.

  25. You go right in after him and nail him right in front of his own pals.

  26. He pointed a wavering finger, with a glistening, highly polished nail on it, toward the opposite side of the street; there the park came right up to the sidewalk and ended.

  27. Now then, you remember that all the accounts of that murder told of the deep marks of finger-nail scratches in the old man's throat.

  28. In plate ninety-eight this Savior is represented with a hole in the top of one foot, just above the toes, where the nail was inserted in the act of crucifixion.

  29. And the iron crown of Lombardy has within it a nail of what is claimed as his true original cross, and is much admired and venerated on that account.

  30. For patterns you can use any natural leaf, forming the creases in wax with thumb nail or needle.

  31. Nail Freedom to your banner, and it shall bring a prostrate nation to its staff, and together with their loud applause, "the morning stars shall sing, and all the sons of God shall shout for joy.

  32. She spoke in her usual pungent, vehement style, hitting the nail on the head every time, and driving it in up to the head.

  33. So it happened that one evening just at sunset, Wassef came to his hut, with the sun like the red rim of a huge thumb-nail in the sky behind him, ready beyond telling for his breakfast, and found nothing.

  34. He stroked his moustache with his thumb-nail in a way he had when perplexed.

  35. Dicky's lips were pressed tight together, and he stroked his faint moustache with a thumb-nail meditatively.

  36. And in return for such poor hospitality as we can offer you, you shall regulate the clock, which has lately developed certain eccentricities, and nail up the creeper on the gable end.

  37. I called," said the Cynic, "in the hope that there might be a clock to regulate or a creeper to nail up, in which case I might earn a cup of tea.

  38. Flatten the ends carefully and truly, lay them alongside on top from post to post and fasten them with a light nail at each end.

  39. Next strip it lengthwise with the rip saw, lap the two halves an inch and nail the lap as in boat building.

  40. A nail o' twal-a-penny is, of course, a nail of that size and sort of which twelve are bought for a penny.

  41. I was frightened to death that he'd take me right on the nail and bang would go my three years' savings for a Ford.

  42. The shoe must have dropped off some way back and she had picked up a nail or something in the quick.

  43. It was a perfect autumn evening, windless and frosty, with a dead black sky and a tiny rim of new moon like a thumb-nail paring.

  44. She ought to be promoted to the dignity of toe-nail polisher to Queen Victoria.

  45. I should like to show Zedekiah how to nail together some bits of board, for an embryo lounge; I should like to stuff it with cotton, and cover it with a neat "patch.

  46. A shot which comes very close to the nail is considered as that of an indifferent marksman; the bending of the nail is, of course, somewhat better; but nothing less than hitting it right on the head is satisfactory.

  47. On a dirty bed lay a man, a table with a journal or perhaps a ledger before him, a small cask in a corner near him, a brass pistol on a nail over his head, and a long Spanish dagger by his side.

  48. Minga, going to the dressing-table and taking the ivory-backed nail buffer, searched about for some polishing powder.

  49. There weren't many lights at the nail mill but just enough to show broken outlines of a sheet-iron village there.

  50. The car was filled for the most part with Slavs, a few Italians, and some negroes from the nail mill.

  51. A half-mile away another ironclad cluster of buildings, the tube mill, the nail mill, and the rest, with convenient rails running up to them.

  52. The car up from the nail mill stopped just before it dove under the railroad bridge.

  53. It is the little things that tell; the isolated thumb-nail impressions that live in one's mind, and will go with us to the grave.

  54. It is of those performers that I write: of the hole-and-corner work, of the little thumb-nail sketches which go to make up the big battle panels so ably depicted over the matutinal bacon and eggs.

  55. In point of fact, however, she had simply gone upstairs to Florent's bedroom, the key of which was hanging from a nail in the kitchen.

  56. On invitation to show its gait he mounted it, after explaining that it had stepped on a nail and traveled lamely.

  57. There would be time enough for a man to look into the progress of the fine arts as represented in the pawn-shop windows of the stockyards neighborhood, before striking a line for the Union Station to nail down a seat in the flier.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquire; articulate; bag; bolt; buckle; butt; button; capture; catch; claim; clasp; claw; clip; clout; clutch; collar; connect; ding; distinguish; dovetail; drain; ensnare; entangle; entrap; fastener; foul; get; girth; grab; grapple; hanger; harpoon; hasp; have; hinge; hit; hitch; hook; identify; instrument; jam; joint; kilometer; know; lacing; land; lasso; latch; lock; measure; mesh; miter; mortise; nail; net; nick; nip; noose; palm; partake; peg; pin; place; pocket; point; pop; possess; pull; rabbet; realize; receive; recognize; rivet; rope; sack; scarf; screw; secure; seize; sew; skewer; slosh; snag; snake; snap; snare; snatch; spear; spike; spot; staple; steal; stick; stitch; strike; suspender; swipe; tack; take; tangle; tell; toggle; transfix; trap; wedge; zipper