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Example sentences for: bolt

How can you use “bolt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A heater installed by M. Gautier had exploded a few nights earlier and fired a bolt like a bullet across the room and into Raskolnikov's hand.
Then he shoots his bolt and wad by taking a long shot at some one-shot deal that will win him the whole shooting match.
Spurling informs us that the pattern on the wallpaper and tablecloth comes from a bolt of blue cotton cloth that Matisse glimpsed from a bus and that in the course of revising the painting he changed the background from blue to red.
As a part of this inspection and repair, a detailed map is made that locates any remaining defects; the minimum width of the bolt is measured along with the overall length of the unstretched material.
And if they must do it, try not to discard the peculiar bolt fittings, so that I can put them back--they don't make that kind of sink anymore, so parts are hard to find.