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nail - use in sentences
Object
- jello: Creating and building effective Search Engine marketing campaigns is like trying to nail jello to the wall!
Converse of object
- hammer: Partly this may be a matter of teaching useful skills - how to hold a fork or hammer a nail.
- manicure: She has a powerful jaw and perfectly manicured nails that she loves to scratch and tear with.
- galvanize: Cone headed galvanized screw nails secure the seating lathes.
- hit: Uncle Bill hit the nail on the head with his Scooby versus Evo musings in the STI end of term report.
Adjective modifier
- rusty: Her voice had the quality of a metal chair being scraped over rusty nails.
- brittle: A: " Brittle nails are the result of severe dehydration in the nail plates.
- in-growing: I was always good at in-growing nails and Mikele's got two naughty ones.
- ingrown: Socks will help prevent blisters, calluses, corns and ingrown nails.
Modifies a noun
- varnish: You should also remove nail varnish or bring remover with you.
- polish: I never had pretty pink nail polish on or pretty pink dresses " .
- clipper: Place your scissors, nail files, nail clippers, razor blades etc. in the hold.
- remover: How is it taken: Inhaled from products such as nail varnish removers, aerosol cans and lighter fuel.
- biter: Nail biter I would like to express my thanks to you for helping me overcome my nail biting habit.
- clipping: We will be doing rabbit and guinea pig nail clipping and health checks in exchange for a small donation.
Noun used with modifier
- toe: An In growing toe nail is caused by a splinter of nail or the whole nail causing pressure into the skin.
- finger: This Chinese lute is like a Spanish guitar in some ways, with finger nails being used to pluck the strings.
- thumb: One had an infant bird in it that was no bigger then a thumb nail!
- batten: All batten nails need to penetrate a structural material by a minimum of 38mm.
Preposition: in
- coffin: For Russia to follow suit would be the final nail in the coffin.
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