Sentence examples for drive a nail from inspiring English sources
"drive a nail" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to use a hammer to insert a nail into a surface. Example: He had to drive a nail into the wall to hang up the picture.
It was like trying to drive a nail with a monkey wrench.
You could drive a nail through this decade, and the future of the planet would swing in the balance.
It's your blood and 'tis a sad thing when a man can't even drive a nail straight.
"My contact sheets may be compared to the way you drive a nail in a plank," he said.
The Meehan brothers descended with hammers and drills to rescue the kid brother who could barely drive a nail.
After several days, she finally found that she could drive a nail into the frame of the window screen.
Then a Coney Island sideshow performer drove a nail into his nostril with a claw hammer.
One of his stars, for instance, drives a nail through his tongue.
Below it he drove a nail and on the nail he hung a wire hanger and the two old shirts suspended from it.
As reported by the New York Times, the engineers drove a nail into the battery and judged it a success when they saw only smoke, not fire.
