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.