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Example sentences for: nails

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Liberals were nonplused and bit their nails as the conservative ideology machine turned them into pulp.
Beck nails the highbrow vote, with Luc Sante's Village Voice musing that the music has "a texture and effect that is not far from that of the hand-painted non-collages of James Rosenquist," as well as the lowbrow vote: USA Today says it "radiates party vibes" (Edna Gundersen).
In Stigmata, Patricia Arquette plays a frenetic party girl, who, of all the people in the world, is judged to be the best candidate for mouthing lost Aramaic scriptures as unseen nails are hammered into her appendages.
Explainer was humming along just great, hitting the nails on the head, until the last sentence: "And a browser's source code is only a fraction of the size of that of an operating system."
McCain: Nine Inch Nails.