bolt
Example Sentences
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Now that she’s caring for the infant, however, he’s itching to bolt.
From Los Angeles Times
Not everyone hailed his “colossal tower”; for some critics it was an “odious column of bolted metal” and a “stupefying folly.”
Now she was venturing upstairs to the fabric department to haggle over bolts of cloth for another costume.
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She bolted through the doors and stepped out into the night.
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She bolted through the doors and stepped out into the night.
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