Thesaurus / nuts bolts
FEEDBACK- as inpractical
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- as inintent/intention
- as inmeaning
- as inmethod
- as inmode
- as innitty-gritty
- as innuts and bolts
- as inparticular
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synonyms for nuts bolts
synonyms for nuts bolts
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antonyms for nuts bolts
MOST RELEVANT
- dullness
- bluntness
- disinterest
- invalidity
- uselessness
- whole
- personality
- boredom
- repulsion
- ineffectiveness
- exteriority
- poverty
- periphery
- surface
- nothingness
- nothing
- insignificance
- outside
- exterior
- fear
- cowardice
- leaving
- forgetting
- abandoning
- imprisonment
- retention
- failure
- defeat
- neglect
- ignorance
- disregard
- hold
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How to use nuts bolts in a sentence
The nuts are cut into thin slices and wrapped in the leaves of a singular plant called buyo.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEThe two animal friends soon came to where some of the acorn nuts had fallen off a tree, and they ate as many as they wanted.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMThe flat top had come down a little; we put in a line of bolts, fastening the top of the tube to the outer casing.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKThe savages also cultivated ground-nuts, of several varieties; among them,299 Arachis hypoga and Apios tuberosa.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSThe windows and doors, too, are secured with bolts and bars in a manner almost unknown in any town of Europe.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERThe treasure consisted in this case of a quantity of bent and rusty nails of all sizes, and a few screws and nuts.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNEROnce a big hog came up and tried to eat the nuts out of a basket.
THE LATER CAVE-MENKATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPPWild hogs and bears had begun to harvest the nuts before the Cave-men returned.
THE LATER CAVE-MENKATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPPSome bolts were drawn and the two were admitted, the door being instantly barred behind them by an attendant.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYHis nuts he broke with a hammer precisely as a man would have done and without being shown its use.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRIS