Sentence examples for as a rivet from inspiring English sources

Like heavy-duty denim, all of his jackets are made with felled seams — two overlapping edges folded up so they don't fray — and bar tacks, a tight zigzag stitch that's almost as strong as a rivet.

A tool, such as a riveting hammer, may be connected to the reciprocating piston.

(Older songs, such as a riveting rendition of The Owl and the Tanager, have it too).

Mr. Uzan's banquet scene began as a riveting spectacle of paranoia and decadence, but the tension petered out.

The unfolding drama featuring Pennington as the central character is shaping up as a riveting second act.

Journalists cover politics as a riveting narrative, in which major events can always alter the outcome of the election.

He met Inna Hecker, and in 1948 they immigrated to New York, where he made a living as a riveting lecturer and writer serialized in Yiddish newspapers.

The program also offers the New York premiere of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's "Candelabra III," which the orchestra's directors describe as a riveting and deeply personal score.

In a statement from the judging panel, The Natural Way of Things was described as "a riveting and necessary act of critique" that "carries us from a nightmare of helplessness and despair to a fantasy of revenge and reckoning".

At Yale and elsewhere, Dr. Metlitzki was known as a riveting lecturer and storyteller who would regale her audiences with firsthand accounts of some of the 20th century's most turbulent times.

His book on the UK coalition, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition, has been hailed as a riveting and indispensable guide to a most unusual government.