Sentence examples for nail back from inspiring English sources
In the darkness, I found the gap I'd created in the fence, and with one desperate whack of my fist, smacked the picket's 3 inch nail back into the crossbar wood.
As I work on my bade, Lucy mortars each side of a badly broken big toenail with clear nail polish, then lays a piece of tea-bag fabric across the fracture, followed by another layer of nail polish, fusing the nail back together.
Getting your nail back to normal can take many months.
Clip the nail back as far as you can, but don't clip through the splinter.
Ideally, you should trim the nail back to within 2-4 millimeters of the quick.
Then, using the back end of the hammer to lift the nail back out, creating a hole.
Tap the nail backing off to the side (to avoid having it stick out).
Most islanders have nailed back the corrugated-iron roofs ripped off by the storm; others still live under dripping tarpaulins, or bunk with relatives.
After losing some of its best people during the merger chaos, DKB can now, as one insider puts it, "start nailing back the planks that were smashed off".
When women polished their nails back then, says Ribeiro, "they buffed them with chamois leather, or they put lightly coloured beeswax on their nails to give them a shine".
Gwen Kay, on the history faculty at the State University of New York at Oswego, said she was surprised that no one had come up with the idea of mirrorlike nails back in the 1920's.
