11 example sentences using nail.
Nail used in a sentence
Nail in a sentence as a noun
This post hits the nail on the head.
They're happy to pay you to nail down another tiny detail about some kind of cancer, but try an innovative cure and they balk.
This is really bad.[1]: From the page: > [$100 gets you] access to the internal list for the project, where I'll be soliciting feedback about how to nail this.
Companies that fight tooth & nail for customers and need lots of outside capital to do it usually have much worse financial outcomes.
The idea that TSA is now using little stacks of toe-nail clippers and such as proof of how great a job they are doing should be ringing alarm bells somewhere.
But I'll sure fight tooth and nail until the day I get squeezed out of this place - voting with my dollars and my labor, and a small but convinced voice in what is right and what is wrong.
Nail in a sentence as a verb
When companies, like Sun, open sources various software, it took considerable effort to nail down all the problems and remove the parts that weren't there's to open source--which in the case of a device like a camera might well make the whole thing useless.
We should be fighting this tooth and nail.- Politically, we should punish anything associated with the NSA.- Socially, we should shun everyone from this date forward who works directly with or as a contractor for anything associated with NSA/FBI/CIA/DEA/DIA.
I will fight tooth and nail for a safe environment for them with adults who are on their side and not on the side of the bullies, but I want them to grow up knowing that if you tell your friend to **** off they will stop being your friend because you are an *******, not because you are weird.
How many features do people fight nail and tooth for, that should be cut, just because if they aren't in the product they won't have anything to show for their work when review time comes around?People are terrified of making decisions, because if they make a bad one, it's going to look poorly when they're ranked.
As a journalist in the valley, I can just say that the first paragraph he's written here hits the nail right on the ******* head.---"Its tough being a journalist, especially if youre covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while youre stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy.
Nail definitions
horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"
succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course"
locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"
See also: pinpoint
complete a pass
See also: complete