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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211. This can be prevented by painting the surface of the clean key cap with clear nail varnish.
212. Her attempts to be my friend were false like her bright red nail varnish.
213. I stand Watching his stillness, like an iron nail Driven, flush to the head, Into a yew post.
214. A muscle near her right cheekbone fluttered at erratic intervals, and the nail polish was chipped.
215. Traces of her red nail varnish, he noticed, could still be seen where her fingertips hadn't been eaten.
216. Her fingers were stained with dirt, her nail varnish chipped.
217. Robert: I need a long nail to go right through.
218. This conclusion is the final nail in the coffin of the notion of sentential meaning.
219. The nail is bent.
220. Scribe across the panel then saw it to size and nail in the margin.
221. It was another nail in the coffin of the F1A governing body.
221. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
222. An estate agency employee in East Yorkshire suffered serious injuries from a nail bomb.
223. Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities.
224. He looks in fury at the nail holding his left hand in place.
225. Industry observers fear that this would be another nail in the coffin of the independent record industry.
226. It was rather small and it had been hung, quite casually, on a nail protruding from the wall.
227. As the surgeon pulled the nail up, black juice ran out.
228. In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light.
229. If they are undamaged remove the polish with nail varnish remover.
230. He'd need that to prise out the nail that pinned his cat over the door.
231. If you are determined not to let your character make you an inferior person, or stop you from being an achieving person, fight your negative values and habits tooth and nail, it is possible for you to win the battle. Dr T.P.Chia
232. We have the subject - she, the object - the hammer, and the indirect object - the nail.
233. As hair gets tied back, so nail varnish comes off and old, stain-absorbing clothes go on.
234. It was hard to hear what was being said, but some one had put a nail through a pipe.
235. There's no need to nail the shelves down, as they can't move sideways because of the spacers.
236. I haven't played in a series against them where it's been tooth and nail.
237. When the nail finally pulled free, I sank to my knees.
238. Looking back, the heartland was a congenial place to nail down the business.
239. After, they had to cut her knots with nail scissors.
240. At his own suggestion, Reg said Singh had personally removed that clause from my contract with his nail clippers.