How To Use Nail In A Sentence

The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close.
Only a bit of string looped round a nail in the doorpost held it shut.
The fingernails on my right hand are long and the fingernails on my left hand are short.
The nail has been removed, and barring infection it is believed the aged man will live.
Augustine or Aquinas at least had some attempts to nail down the philosphical problem: the problem with "superbia" (vanity) and "amor sui". Armed and Dangerous

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A reed basket of ha'penny nails to go with it lay in the jumble of objects at the far end of the table; something perhaps left behind by the carpenters who had furnished the room. Sick Cycle Carousel
In time the glazer will learn to measure the thickness by feeling it with a fingernail. 9. Glaze application
For a split-second I thought he might have a shot at an inside-the-park homer, though a strong throw probably would have nailed him.
Whole lions at £5,000 a head, antelopes, porcupines, goats, cane rats and large, live snails - all from West Africa - were also candidates for the dinner table.
In most other snail species, the apertural teeth and laminae, when they are present, begin to develop as a snail approaches maturity. Archive 2009-07-01
The nail in your coffin is the arbitration system run by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Dan Solin: John Elway's Tackle Masks a Bigger Scandal
The method with good what does guttural agnail have to treat?
It is a rebuke to those who grumpily accept their snail-paced status quo. Times, Sunday Times
Trim toenails straight across using nail clippers.
The Brown case was very feeble especially on the decline of manufacturing and where Marr did nail him. teledu Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
The streets were crammed with people walking on hot coals or lying on nails. Times, Sunday Times
Nails are optional and if offered should be high-end nail services like a spa pedicure with foot mask, massage, exfoliation and footbath.
But now I'm nailed to my leather seat as the speedometer passes 135 mph, the tach hits 8,200 rpm, and the church is a dancing dot in our rearview mirror.
I just tried to nail the last wall and have a real good kickout," said Phelps, who won five events during the four-day meet. Phelps wins three events, eyes US Trials
Nails are optional and if offered should be high-end nail services like a spa pedicure with foot mask, massage, exfoliation and footbath.
Tina keeps up to date with trends in nail art and promises she can do any look a customer might see in a magazine.
But they needed other aids, for their teeth and nails could not readily dismember anything larger than a rabbit.
I filled him up with tarry spunyarn, nailed sheet copper round him, bent some parts in the fire; and we are paying-in without more trouble now. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries.
The surface of the nails were smooth and without any defects.
Can you hold this nail in position while I hammer it into the door?
The nail ripped a hole in my jacket.
As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick.
Six weeks after conception your baby is the size of your little fingernail.
It felt as if a million nails were being pounded by a hammer.
A second home test is to look at your finger nails - do they have lots of white flecks? Body Odour
The ability of snails to hydrolyze plant polysaccharides xylan, mannan, starch and cellulose as well as chitin, an animal and fungal polysaccharide, is probably an indication of their omnivorous diet. Archive 2006-04-01
Likewise, a few citation errors in the IPCC report were trumpeted as the final nails in the coffin for the climate movement, despite the fact that not a single investigation even those in which climate skeptics have participated has found any evidence thatscientists "fudged,""manipulated" or "manufactured" data, and the fundamental conclusions of the IPCC still stand. Kelly Rigg: The Movement with a Thousand Faces
A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
I looked at him dourly and gnawed on my nail nervously.
And he has decided to treat them as if they were tribolites, or snails, and to do a morphological analysis, and try to derive their genealogical history over time.
The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
Also, in answering your other question, I think to contact him you should write an honest-to-god letter and send it via snail mail. A Brother By Any Other Name | Her Bad Mother
Two strips of wood, about an inch square, called riffle-bars, were nailed across the bottom of the cradle-box, one at the middle and the other near the lower end. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
I also need a hammer and nails, picture hooks and the step ladder.
Phthalates are a large family of industrial chemicals used for their plasticizing properties in nail polishes and in dozens of plastic products, from shower curtains to food wrap; and for their scent-prolonging feature in fragrances.
Watch as paperclip melts hole in nail. Times, Sunday Times
She found a pair of nail scissors and cut the stitches.
However, the nail was not refastened by this mechanism.
Longitudinal striations are accentuated ridges in the nail surface that can occur as a normal part of the aging process.
The Secure comes with other tools as well - a blade, nailfile, screwdriver, scissors, key ring, LED light and ballpoint pen. TG Daily
The editor scans in video clips as thumbnails and displays the thumbnails in the clip window of the display.
The moment somebody thinks they've nailed the grand alchemy that makes Dali a genius somebody else came along and offers a new, kookier explanation. The Birth of Girma Dali
Make sure you get in between the fingers and under the nails where uninvited germs like to hang out.
Steel can be cast into bars, strips, sheets, nails, spikes, wire, rods or pipes as needed by the end user.
He hammered in the nail.
Here are some snaps to get the summer nail inspo going strong.
The guy hits the skins as if he's trying to nail them to the floor.
Water snails don't eat living plants, just decaying vegetation and algae.
His elder brother, Nails, still at school, played water-polo for the town and stole cars.
We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.
The tail is fixed on the model plane with nails; it cannot come off.
The arm is brawny enough for a man, but the nails are very long, like a woman's.
If Bertuzzi were to be sued, every player who got a sliver or a hangnail because of an infraction, would be out for some money.
I felt her nails sink into my wrist.
In my day the boots were made from tough leather with a very hard leather toecap and leather studs nailed into the sole and heel.
How about snails in hot tomato sauce, or refried cauliflower with garlic cloves?
The room smelled of new calfskin luggage and nail-lacquer remover.
Chip Caray infuriated a lot of baseball fans this October on TBS, sparking jokes as he described seemingly every hit as "fisted," and completely botching a call in the 10th inning of the AL Central one-game playoff, when he screamed, "Line drive, base hit!" on a screamer by Nick Punto that Tigers left fielder Ryan Raburn caught before throwing home to nail Alexi Casilla at the plate and keep the game going. NY Daily News
Hammering a nail is a wonderful use of the hammer, but using a hammer to cut a wire is foolish. Kicking The Dog
The most curious usage, because it seems to have spread furthest from its origins, whatever they are, is snail.
Depict the tail that gives a shooting star finally with the fingernail oil that contains big paillette , fu of bag of radian having a place is above fingernail can make the effect more apparent.
Can you hold this nail in position while I hammer it into the door?
I carried her with me and placed her on the ladder and she scrambled up, her little, ragged dress catching momentarily on the nails of the rafters.
If acidification kills tiny sea snails known as pteropods, as it is likely to, the Pacific salmon that feed upon these planktonic creatures may also die.
As we look into fiscal '10, I only hope that we are as accurate as we have been on our title slips or non-title slips, the quality of our games, the windows that we hit and the market share that we achieve because we nailed it, with almost perfect accuracy in' 09. Software Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
She was a seven-foot-tall, 480-pound frontierswoman from the Utah Territory who could shoot and drink like a man and bend nails with her tongue.
Many a pleasant evening the two spent there, talking of locomotive planished iron, wire nails, and turnbuckles, and the late lunch Miss Monon served beat the system's regular buffet service a city block. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
His fingernails were rimmed with dirt.
The twins fight tooth and nail over the slightest disagreement.
The glass should be well "bedded" down to the sash bar, in putty containing a portion of white lead, and well secured with small iron nails or glaziers points. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings
Summary: The difficulty in assessing femoral rotation during intramedullary nailing is well - established.
Nadia, with toenails freshly scarlet, drove straight from Oakburton to Sam's to recover her kitchenware. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
A fine would be the final nail in the coffin of the airline.
The instruments trudge along at a snail's pace and the recording quality is poor at best.
Seventy plus males all fighting over the remote control, forgetting your birthday or nailing wonky shelves to the firmament without first reading the instructions?
That nail polish was a positive match, and she's got some explaining to do.
What with ripened berries, snails, slugs and insects, there was a veritable feast on offer.
Fish eat snails in their shells and hard-shelled crustacea as well as invertebrates with exoskeletons.
If Jack had been trying to find a way to impress Polly he had hit the nail on the head.
Her dress caught on a nail.
The traditional gardeners' tools of spades, forks and trowels have been replaced by sketchpads, hammers and nails.
ACOUSTICS – D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand of Chicago’s Northwestern University for a 1986 experiment aimed at discovering why the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard is so irritating. Announcing the Year’s Winners of the IgNobel Prize | Impact Lab
Other containers house giant cockroaches and itty-bitty arachnid hatchlings, a few months old and smaller than a pinky nail.
They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
Nail salons offering manicures and pedicures are also quick and have the added benefit of improving your appearance.
If you agree to take part, the moderator for your panel will email you and the other participants to nail down the details of the panel.
She realized she had torn her jacket on a nail.
The integumentary system consists of the skin, hair, nails, and certain exocrine glands. The Secret Language of Your Body
A scientist involved in embryonic stem cell research nails the Senator's lies about the matter.
Don't you want me to varnish your toe - nails since you've had a pedicure?
I punched the button again, pressing my finger against the stupid button until the area around my nail was white with pressure.
Hammer the nails in and then hang these pictures on them.
The images are available in thumbnail or high-resolution versions with significant metadata. Archive 2008-04-01
To drill through the tile you will need a hammer, a nail set, an electric drill and a masonry bit a little larger than the diameter of the screws you use.
The gypsum board must be attached to the wood furring strips or underlying masonry using nails or screws.
Kids spent a few hours in a safe environment, off the streets, learning to nail an ollie, or take on the halfpipe. Shannon Galpin: Progress in Afghanistan? The Youth Movement in Kabul
Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
Â This could mean big trouble if you are a rotifer or a mud snail: Reproduction is as important as survival to any particular individual, and if the chances to do so are impaired then biological fitness is automatically lowered. Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem!
Remove all but the sturdiest seedling in each position and protect from slugs and snails after planting. Times, Sunday Times
Dating from the late ninth century AD, the hoard includes silver coins, fragments of two swords, weights, a belt buckle, strap ends as well as the boat nails.
I mean, they're confiscating nail clippers and cuticle scissors and all of these things, and basically rousting people at the security gates.
They got it absolutely on the nail .
She daubed the red colour onto her nails.
With a sense of great pride, I knocked the last nail in.
After his cult hit Withnail & I, writer-director Bruce Robinson teamed up again with Richard E Grant for this misconceived satire about an advertising whizz-kid who develops an alter-ego in the form of a talking boil on his shoulder. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
You won't be covering your ears from the lack of pleasantries coming out of the speaker, but if you get busy picking at a pesky hangnail, you won't even notice that Desmond is on.
I have often thought that living through the 1950s – as an intelligent, sensitive woman – makes the current political atmosphere seem like a dirty-toenailed commune. Older and wiser, telling you what to do
She pictured herself with pink lipstick and violet nail polish and a little blush.
They took me back to the house and my aunt cleaned me up then gave me a manicure, filing my nails and painting them maroon.
Small stabbings of pain made him move at a snails pace.
I took a look after death of coffin Guo, Adidas Predator XI, cover drive we re-cover well nail last, some action also has no, does this really have ghost not to become in the world?
Over one eye he has a scar, a white slice the length of a thumbnail, the one part of his face that never turns nut-brown. 23rd and Surf
Even the smallest metallic object, whether a nail file or cigarette lighter, is immediately confiscated.
He was only too happy to provide what I asked for: thumbnail biographies of the three who were coming to see us today. MURDER IN E MINOR
We must nail this lie.
The pallial eye is easy to notice when the snail lifts its operculum up and starts to come out of its shell with the aperture facing up. Cerithidea
In most other snail species, the apertural teeth and laminae, when they are present, begin to develop as a snail approaches maturity. Archive 2009-07-01
His fricassee of snails contains the spicy Japanese condiment red yuzu kosho, local fiddlehead ferns and resinous Greek mastic infused with English peas. Snails Quicken Their Culinary Pace
After a tumultuous turn of events, the general cast of the show is nailed down as the three end up shipless on one of the large continents.
ÂHuman males, unlike their snail and rotifer counterparts, actually seek out sterility in a potential partner... and for good reason: could you imagine if each of your own sexual conquests had resulted in offspring? Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem!
A sharp iron nail unseen might "dawk" the skin off an unwary hand. The Life of the Fields
Stew the apples in a little water till they become a pulp, placing with them half a dozen cloves and half a dozen strips of the yellow part only of the outside of the rind of a _fresh_ lemon of the size and thickness of the thumb-nail; sweeten with brown sugar, that known as Porto Rico being the most economical. Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
To the right (here we have already seen the statues on the left on the first picture of the altar to the right) on the baldachin St. Pantaleon (look with his hands nailed to his head) and on the volute St. Christopher. Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
We don't care about the experts turning that two-bedroom shanty into a beautiful mansion, we want to see that arrogant caulker shoot a roofing nail into his foot and fall into a tree mulching machine.
He watched, observing as she picked up a fork that her nails showed the same glint as her hair. Times, Sunday Times
The new track planned for Great Leighs is another nail in the coffin for turf horseracing in this country.
Also, brads from a nail gun become almost invisible when nailed.
Opponents in Parliament, which has to vote on the measure, vowed to fight it tooth and nail.
In one bony hand he clutched an oak club driven through with rusty nails.
He is said to have been part of a gang that used stolen credit cards to buy bomb ingredients including nail varnish remover. The Sun
Her attempts to be my friend were false like her bright red nail varnish.
Stomach annulus umbilical is , ear nail, nose nail, lip nail.
Now you've got a throbbing bruise underneath your nail. The Sun
After a file, buff and cuticle clean-up, your nails get shellacked. Times, Sunday Times
Nor was he biting his nails over the fate of Shapirov and yet -- Tapping his own emotions, it occurred to him that having come thus far, having been miniaturized and finding himself in a small cerebral arteriole, he suddenly had an urge to check out his theories. Destination Brain
Nail up a set of reference strings on the rafters that protrude the most into the attic.
Only trying to help the site notify you of bugs etc, with over 20yrs of experience working at software firms and beta test for firms like macromedia, I think I was qualified to try to nail bugs. Plentyoffish is hiring. « The Paradigm Shift
Lesser actors would have come off as comically ineffectual or abrasive and unlikable, but Howard nails the performance.
Yes | No | Report from fisherdude wrote 29 weeks 17 hours ago in lakes in Michigan i have nailed bass on a texas rigged YUM gonzo grup. they work great. I fish a river near my house, the South branch river, and it got a lot of smallmouth in it.
The character has been lobotomised and spends almost the entire play standing against the wall with arms raised as though nailed to a crucifix.
The door was studded with brass nails.
Digg For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. TIME.com: Top Stories
Every word he said hit the nail on the head.
We are standing in a spacious kitchen painted a dusky pink colour that, were it a lipstick or nail varnish, would be called Plum Beautiful or Berry Sorbet.
He struck the nail home.
Snail is a small plant - eating creature with a soft body.
I really like the one with door and maze shaped as a skull. web thumbnail is my favorite giantyoda Cool Stuff: The Shining - Posters and Tribute Artwork | /Film
I had a strong sense of her femininity; she was wearing nail varnish, and had an aura of faintly sweet scent. Seminary Boy
That being said, though, I think my bodiless namesake hits the nail on the head when he points out that the concept is already overfamiliar, even if this is the character's film debut.
I glare at her and then turn to study my nails. ‘Hmm, that one needs another coat of red.’
And you know, again, it's so hard to nail these white collar criminals, because they get the best legal talent.
There was the danger of the noted "thinness" -- which was to be averted, tooth and nail, by cultivation of the lively. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1
They may try to nail it on the perch again but nobody will believe it is still alive.
But all of the nail biting is forgotten as Brazil has rolled through the tournament unbeaten, with major victories coming against Belgium and England. USATODAY.com - Brilliant Brazil overcomes tough Turkey
Nail the sign to the post.
Martin honed his expertise of various banjo styles, such as "three-finger" picking, made famous by Scruggs, and "clawhammer" - also known as "frailing" - a style known for its syncopated rhythms and distinct melodic phrasing that employs the back of the fingernails to strike or strum the strings, and a thumb technique that alternates between the strings. NPR Topics: News
It runs down the middle of the arm ending at the nail of the middle finger. Drug-Free Pain Relief
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people who bite their nails.
The only people who can nail the perpetrators are the reporters who heard the leaks.
In a full parking lot at a South Los Angeles strip mall, complete with sushi, Starbucks and a beauty nail shop, not every motorist can accurately guess what's popular with car thieves these days.
There is a nail varnish with gold flecks in it. Times, Sunday Times
The best myrrhe is known by little peeces which are not round; and when they grow together, they yeeld a certain whitish liquour which issueth and resolveth from them, and if a man breake them into morsels, it hath white veines resembling men's nails, and in tast is somewhat bitter. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
In taking care of the royal feet, M Sitts showed such skill that his Majesty one day asked him to remove an agnail from one of his fingers.
But meanwhile it was only Tuesday, and he was nearing the battered and nail-bestudded front door of La Sarthe Chase. Halcyone
Worse, the color of the bar below a thumbnail is meaningless -- it is pulled from one of the colors used for the Web site's favicon and, otherwise, does not appear to convey any important technical information. 6 things we like about Internet Explorer 9 beta (and six not so much)
Snails graze in abundance on sick and dying cordgrass.
Take the burrs off the cuts with a pocket knife or sandpaper or fingernail file.
Since neither Jewel nor Corvi had anything more than a set of stubby, carefully filed down nails, Zhaneel laughed. The White Gryphon
Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.
And I don't want to cut off the horns of a black snail.
Some of the great sparkling looks came in tiny swimsuits or two-piece bikinis studded with silver nail heads including crocheted white suits.
And still no one has been nailed for it. Times, Sunday Times
The basis of this weekly Robin installment is Baldeon's full-page image (click on thumbnail to the right) of the current Robin (Tim Drake) and the original Robin, now Nightwing (Dick Grayson), about to confront each other over ... well, some pool of immortality thing -- I wasn't really following. Archive 2008-04-01
Even the smallest metallic object, whether a nail file or cigarette lighter, is immediately confiscated.
The technicians wear small paper masks over their mouths, but their hands and faces are liberally covered with white powder from filing clients' acrylic nails.
A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom, its legs brushing her cheek.
Her kit includes a cream to exfoliate thickened skin, a pumice stone to smooth calluses, a mask to remove oils and impurities, a copper-based cream to hydrate and a nail rejuvenator to improve discolored toenails.
Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead. Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site
Q. My fingernails have become dry and flaky. The Sun
He was a perfectionist: no other hand but his could be put to the tasks of nailing and planing and staining. GALILEE
A piece of hair, a nail clipping, or a swab from a glass of beer could all be used to provide information without the person concerned ever knowing.
A partner helps secure the board while the nailer bends backward pushing the groove hard onto the tongue with one hand and driving the nail in with the other.
Cloves (from _clavus_, a nail), also found in the kitchen spice box, and owning certain medicinal resources of a cordial sort, which are quickly available, belong to the Myrtle family of plants, and are the unexpanded flower buds of an aromatic tree (_Caryophyllus_), cultivated at Penang and elsewhere. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
We wedged the sides in the casements and, while Graham was outside applying more nails and battens to make it weather-tight, I fetched old towels to mop up the water on the window seat and on the floor beneath.
What struck me as odd was that they had their apertures sealed with a hard calcareous epiphragm as opposed to a membranous one observed in eastern U.S. snails that normally don't experience long dry periods. Archive 2006-06-01
I know, in the way that I know that Australia is moving north at the rate that our toe nails grow, that only 2% of people who buy how-to books or self-help books act on the advice of the book.
An old pouncet-box, I believe," he informed her, "or possibly it held an ointment for her finger nails. The Pit: A Story of Chicago
I hope you nail the SOB.
Rusty old tin sheets are nailed on to the roof or the sides of buildings to give them a slapdash appearance. Times, Sunday Times
Attraction of the land snail Anguispira alternata to fresh faeces of white-tailed deer: implications in the transmission of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis. Snails and deer poop
The seats are typically offered on standby basis and but have become increasingly hard for employees to nail down as many flights fly at record-full levels.

How To Use Nail In A Sentence

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