Sentence examples for be bolted down from inspiring English sources

Supper must be bolted down before the ice cream, wrapped in newspaper, melts.

Each metal pole had to be bolted down, rewired and timed before the Wednesday morning rush hour.

Gun safes typically need to be bolted down because they are light enough that they could easily be carted off by a burglar, whereas a high security safe is typically heavy enough that a burglar would not be able to move it without a lot of time available (usually not the case) and special tools.

Basic aluminum or steel panels (there are also panels made from a lightweight clear plastic) are also a choice, though they have to be bolted down, which is more labor-intensive.

Although he spoke for 30 minutes, mostly nonstop, he refused to be bolted down to a prediction.

But his conversation is bolted down by riveting insights into a damaged sport that could only come from an insider.

Seats were still being bolted down and whatever pyrotechnics the Nets intend to unleash are being saved for the team's regular season opener, against the Knicks.

This time last year six of the eight were bolted down and, unless you are from Ulster or Munster, things are coming to the boil quite nicely.

"Once on a lobster boat," he said, "the seas got so rough that the refrigerator, which was bolted down, was wrenched loose and started sliding around on the floor.

The floodwater had risen 10 feet inside the museum, so the objects inside cases that were bolted to the floor were floating in a mix of mud and water, but the objects in cases that hadn't been bolted down had been lifted up and smashed.

One of the lights burned out, and while it was being fixed, Kubrick unwound himself from the camera, spotted me staring open-mouthed at the top of the centrifuge, where the furniture of the crew's dining quarters was fastened to the ceiling, and said, "Don't worry — that stuff is bolted down".