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Example sentences for: nail

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.
It includes a trenchant "for want of a nail" tale explaining how an early Dick Gephardt-Newt Gingrich agreement to keep the Starr Report under wraps broke down.
The WP quotes one expert referring to probable "preemptive arrests," and saying that the FBI would "nail [those arrested] for anything they can, just to get them off the streets."
Toys, comic books, nail polish, and jewelry.
Participants are invited to submit other actual news items that drive the final nail into the coffin of that turbulent decade.