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Example sentences for "rivet"

Lexicographically close words:
riverine; riverman; rivermen; rivers; riverward; riveted; riveter; riveters; riveting; rivets
  1. As we have lately seen, such an Administration does not experience a death-bed repentance, but employs the moratorium to rivet upon the country the evil policies which the people have repudiated.

  2. The war, as it appears now, was the culmination of three different world-movements; it destroyed the attempt of German Imperialism to conquer the world and to rivet upon it a Prussian military despotism.

  3. I suppose that in a steam engine the smallest rivet is quite as essential as the huge piston, and that if the rivet drops out the piston-rod is very likely to stop rising and falling.

  4. The cornflowers showed their little blue heads among the rye, and the women wanted to pick them, but Monsieur Rivet refused to stop.

  5. Rivet had given his arm to his sister, out of politeness, although he was in his working clothes, and was walking with her majestically.

  6. I saw Rivet coming towards me, and standing in the middle of the path, he said without even smiling: "So, that is the way in which you settle the affair of that pig Morin.

  7. A pretty girl came and opened the door to us, who was assuredly the young lady in question, and I said to Rivet in a low voice: "Confound it!

  8. I could scarcely take my lips away from the cup, and she had hardly left the room when Rivet came in.

  9. I held her close to me, kissed her every moment, moistening my lips against hers, while her uncle and Rivet were disputing as they walked in front of us.

  10. She showed Rivet his first, and he whispered to me: "There was no danger of her taking us into yours first.

  11. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

  12. Every law of the legislature becomes a link in the chain of the slave; every executive act a rivet to his hapless fate; every judicial decision a perversion of the human intellect to the justification of wrong.

  13. The power of public opinion is here irresistible, and to this power every man contributes something; so that every man, by his spirit and language, helps to loosen or rivet the chains of the slave.

  14. Sirs, the prejudices of the North are stronger than those of the South; they bristle like so many bayonets around the slaves; they forge and rivet the chains of the nation.

  15. Even wide sidewalks of bridges sometimes have tension connections on rivet heads.

  16. We mean for the illustrations--Mr. Rivet said you might put one in.

  17. Let Robbia's craft so apt and strange Arrest the remains of young and fair, And rivet them while the seasons range.

  18. Did I not watch him while he let His armorer just brace his greaves, Rivet his hauberk, on the fret The while!

  19. Of course, looking at all the facts, the first consideration that must inevitably rivet the attention is that arising from the circumstance that Viscount Randolph has strong reasons to wish his father dead.

  20. He can no more wriggle himself free of the psychic gravitations that invest him than the earth can shake herself loose of the sun, or he of the omnipotences that rivet him to the universe.

  21. The only possible means, then, would be to cut through the rivet or chain, and for this a tool would be required.

  22. Iron could be ground by rubbing it upon stone, and if he could not cut off the burr of the rivet with the dagger, he might perhaps be able to wear it down, by rubbing it with a stone.

  23. These were more heavy, and on trying them, the iron of the rivet appeared to be much harder than that which kept the manacles together.

  24. As he had hoped, his first attempt showed him that the iron of the rivet was soft, and the keen dagger at once notched off a small piece of the burred end.

  25. But in vain did he try to twist his legs so as to rub the rivet against the wall, and he gave up the attempt as impossible.

  26. His long solitude and severe afflictions had contributed to rivet him the more in those religious principles which had ever a considerable influence over him.

  27. Hers the high task to wield the uplocking keys, To rivet rogues and reign o'er Rapparees!

  28. Full of passages which rivet the attention of the reader.

  29. But he could not, and it would have been beneath his dignity to have confessed to having a rivet in his neck.

  30. So the young porcelain people always remained together, and they blessed the grandfather's rivet and loved each other till they were broken in pieces.

  31. If they cement his back and put a rivet through his neck, he will be just as good as new, and will be able to say as many disagreeable things to us as ever.

  32. XV Did I not watch him while he let His armourer just brace his greaves, Rivet his hauberk, on the fret The while!

  33. Let Robbia's craft so apt and strange Arrest the remains of young and fair, 170 And rivet them while the seasons range.

  34. In this case holes are drilled in the side pieces and a rivet is put through from one side to the other to hold the handle.

  35. The rivet may be made more of a decorative feature by sawing out of sheet metal some suitable design as shown at P, Q, R.

  36. Drill a hole in the center the size of the rivet and then use any ordinary rivet head.

  37. When necessary, the process may be reversed and the head made first; but when made in this way, a rivet block is needed to rest the head in while making the burr.

  38. For this one the handle must be either bent around the rivet or drilled to receive the rivet.

  39. The rivet is then cut off the required length, placed in position and headed up.

  40. It may be headed up simply with the hammer, or with a rivet header, M.

  41. Rivet we repaired, this being the only auberge that Goudet possessed at the time of Stevenson's visit.

  42. If denied, the hand that opened the dungeon can again rivet the chain.

  43. Even in his present studies, intent as they seemed, and genial though the lecture to a mind enthusiastic even to fanaticism, his eyes could not rivet themselves as of yore steadily to the page.

  44. So the children loosed the dragon from the chains and the collar, and he broke down one end of the dungeon and went out--only pausing at the forge door to get the blacksmith to rivet his wing.

  45. You could certainly do with a rivet or two, sir," said he.

  46. It was fortunately discovered, however, that one of the Dutch pilgrims had accidentally brought on board a large iron screw, and this served to rivet the defective beam.

  47. Without his bellows he could get no fire; without fire he could mould no iron; and without iron the carpenters could not rivet a single plank.

  48. The arrangement or combination of parts hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, for removing the finished rivet or bolt from the horizontal punch or die.

  49. The accession of strength derived from the boiler ends is not here taken into account, but neither is the weakening effect counted that is caused by the rivet holes.

  50. In locomotives, however, and also in some other boilers, a lead rivet is inserted with advantage in the crown of the fire box, which is melted out if the water becomes too low, and thus gives notice of the danger.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rivet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affix; anchor; articulate; attach; bolt; buckle; butt; button; clasp; clip; concentrate; connect; dovetail; establish; fasten; fastener; fix; focus; girth; grip; hasp; hinge; hitch; hook; jam; joint; lacing; latch; lock; miter; mortise; nail; peg; pin; put; rabbet; rivet; scarf; screw; secure; sew; skewer; snap; staple; stick; stitch; tack; tie; toggle; transfix; wedge; zipper