"nail" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The tip is straight and pointed; it usually looks like a nail embedded on a wooden spheroid.
- Flamenco shoes constructed for dance generally have small nails embedded in the toe and heel to enhance the sound of the dancer's percussive footwork.
- Feinstone is last seen driving off into the night with numerous nails embedded in his head and shoulders.
- Dirt was caked under the nails, embedded in the creases.
- Not very, as it turned out: the 13 returned Stations hang on nails embedded in the wall and slip off easily.
- If a hammer strikes a nail embedded in hard wood, so that the nail can't move, the nail still gains energy-but in the form of heat.
- One showed a Chinese prisoner held in a contraption resembling a large lobster trap, standing upright, with sharp nails embedded in its ribs.
- For pulling large nails embedded in tough lumber, use a prybar instead of a hammer's claw.
- There's a key on a nail embedded in the doorjamb right next to it.
- British Aerospace worker Leonard Phillips, 61, had an operation to remove a nail embedded in his chest.
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