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Example sentences for: nails

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

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.
While having a fascinating stroll here, you can stop to have your nails painted, or get a shave and a haircut, all right on the pavement.
The first is to reduce the value of the presidency itself, say by putting new limits on presidential power, or installing a permanent independent counsel, or requiring the president to sleep on a bed of nails.
Examples include "rain was slanted and flying down like nails," and "rocks were black beneath stars," and--frightening enough to make you shiver--"windshield wipers dragged across glass."
McCain: Nine Inch Nails.