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nailed down

How to use nailed down in a sentence

He remembered that the window was nailed down, as it had remained since mademoiselle's pretended attempt at flight.

At one side of the room stood an escritoire, and from a lower drawer therein he took out a small box tightly nailed down.

They came over to our camp daily and would steal everything not nailed down.

All the trench fighting that followed, after all, only nailed down as it were the results of the Marne.

Then the boards taken from the packing cases were fitted in and nailed down securely.

Then he ordered the hatch door nailed down, and handed the things to me.

QUINTUS OAKESCHARLES ROSS JACKSON

Did you see any man there that had been nailed down to a board and burned?

Then a "real carpet" must be nailed down and pictures hung on the wall.

And the rain beat, beat, and it sounded more and more like the droppings of earth upon a nailed down coffin-lid.

And then, there were a lot of little ideas that had to be nailed down before they got away from me.

THE SKYLARK OF SPACEEDWARD ELMER SMITH AND LEE HAWKINS GARBY

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OCTOBER 26, 1985