rivet
Example Sentences
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In a letter addressed to leaders of the Senate, Homendy said the door plug which failed had been opened so rivet repair work could be done in September last year.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2024
Deal told employees of another quality lapse found on about 50 fuselages built by Spirit: Two rivet holes on a window frame “may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements,” Deal wrote.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024
She punches it repeatedly with her other hand, as though she’s holding a rivet gun.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
"We will be removing some 1,200 of these one by one," says site manager Mika Hakkarainen, holding up a rivet.
From Reuters • Jul. 3, 2023
After it was all the way out, the workmen rushed to rivet the plates back into place and close up the hole in The Dessoug.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
