Synonym: break away, fastener, flee, lock. Similar words: symbol, bolster, symbolic. Meaning: [bəʊlt] n. 1. a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder 2. a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech 3. the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key 4. the act of moving with great haste 5. a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length 6. a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener 7. a sudden abandonment (as from a political party). v. 1. move or jump suddenly 2. secure or lock with a bolt 3. swallow hastily 4. run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along 5. leave suddenly and as if in a hurry 6. eat hastily without proper chewing 7. make or roll into bolts. adv. 1. in a rigid manner 2. directly.
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61. The house next to ours was struck by a bolt of lightning.
62. His sudden death came as a bolt from the blue.
63. The bolt didn't catch.
64. When the police arrived he made a bolt for it/for the door.
65. A bolt of lightning struck the roof of the building.
66. She leaned on the door and pushed the bolt home.
67. Her mother was sitting bolt upright, scrunching her white cotton gloves into a ball.
68. He shoot the bolt as soon as he came in.
69. When I pushed his door open, Trevor was sitting bolt upright in bed.
70. Being under stress can cause you to miss meals, eat on the move, or bolt your food.
71. We'd been struck by a lightning bolt.
72. Just long enough for Jinny to bolt the door.
73. The bolt came away with a tacky wrenching sensation.
73. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
74. Waller'd shot the bolt and lowered his eyes.
75. She sat bolt upright, aches and pains quite forgotten.
76. She shot the bolt and then fetched her toilet things.
77. He went around for about ten months with this big metal bolt going in here and coming out here!
78. The bolt was not strong, arthritic with age and corrosion.
79. He sat bolt upright and kept his eyes on the table in front of him.
80. The Mishcon job came like a bolt from the blue.
81. The main picture shows them sitting bolt upright with their hands clenched together in their laps.
82. He heard a click and stepped back quickly as the bolt thudded into the wall of the derelict house behind him.
83. Suddenly, Urquhart stood bolt upright[sentencedict.com], not twenty yards in front of the deer which froze in confusion.
84. She shot bolt upright, pulse racing, mouth dry, and then she remembered the owls.
85. He got up, as if he had shot his last bolt.
86. With the bolt drawn and one hand on the doorknob, I paused to note the time.
87. We feel she wants us out of there as soon as possible so we bolt down our food.
88. Atop a mountain he slew his daughter, then was immediately struck dead by a bolt of lightning.
89. Og course that may mean we're shutting the door after the horse has shot it s bolt.
90. She heard him drop quietly on the other side, and draw the bolt.