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

As Mel Brooks observed, if you break your back, that's comedy; if I break a nail, that's tragedy; if Henry Kissinger breaks his back, that's justice.
(c) Exactly 264 angels can dance on the head of a two-penny nail.
Are you reacting to all the blue nail polish, body piercings, spiky hair, and nose rings?
In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici (1449–1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.
8. Coffin nail is a later allusion to `cigarette': in its earlier metaphoric life it referred to anything that might serve to drive one to an early grave; indeed, some early Western saloons sold tokens bearing the words “coffin nail” stamped on them which were good for a shot of redeye.