Synonym: apprehend, capture, catch, fasten, fix, hold, hook, secure, seize, snare, trap. Similar words: questionnaire, mail, jail, sail, rail, trail, retail, fail to. Meaning: [neɪl] n. 1. horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits 2. a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener 3. a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard. v. 1. attach something somewhere by means of nails 2. take into custody 3. hit hard 4. succeed in obtaining a position 5. succeed at easily 6. locate exactly 7. complete a pass.
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151. The deeply incised DE/ED made with a red-hot nail was visible for anyone to see.
152. He would also fight tooth and nail to keep her from the likes of Tommy Allen.
153. Quake involves killing opponents with a variety of implements including axes, nail guns and rocket launchers.
154. Peg opens a drawer and gets out a nail file from a manicure set.
155. Keeping his mind steadied was like trying to nail a raindrop to the wall.
156. They fought tooth and nail to protect the solicitors' monopoly of conveyancing but eventually compromised by not objecting to licensed conveyancers.
157. If you must nail your deck, there are some tricks you can use.
158. Don't struggle: take a grip with pincers or pliers and remove the sucker as though pulling out a nail.
159. And Glentoran's win at Larne put the final nail in their faint qualifying hopes.
160. Every person born female eventually experiences the annoyance of a broken nail, the peculiar agony of a bad haircut.
161. One of her big toes had an old sticker of scab on it behind the nail. Sentencedict.com
162. You were invited to drive the nail through the timber to the other side with one blow from a hammer.
163. Just something to distinguish hair f nail manic facial. How does that sound to you?
164. Chamfer the top corners and nail on with 1-1/2in ovals, punched in and filled.
165. The moon, a nail clipping on a black cloth, rises and as abruptly sets.
166. So how did we nail the opportunist without resorting to high-level warfare?
167. First, use nail clippers rather than scissors to cut the mails.
168. Legislation aimed at forcing the power firms to clean up their act is being fought tooth and nail by the polluters.
169. Tetanus: it doesn't have to be a rusty nail, the caption read.
170. She dug the nail of her little finger deeply in behind the left ear.
171. Her erratic gaze paused briefly on the broken nail she was picking with her other hand.
172. In the end[sentencedict.com], it was also the issue which secured a vital nail in the coffin of Britain's nuclear dream.
173. I know we doctors have fought you tooth and nail.
174. A final nail in the coffin had been hammered in by Wrede.
175. Start a nail farther back from the end of the board and hammer it in at an angle toward the end.
176. He glanced around, then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock.
177. I bet they paid their £1.80 on the nail when they got the magazine.
178. She could knock a nail in as well as any man, she said, and at once proceeded to do so.
179. Another loss would be another nail in Branfoots managerial coffin.
180. Second, you could nail up corner blocks, those square blocks of pine with a an embossed circle in the middle.