Sentence examples for on a tack from inspiring English sources

When he gets a bad card, he flinches like he just stepped on a tack".

This formal feeling begins when sensory neurons are activated by noxious stimuli, such as stepping on a tack.

Mr. Nakamura, the nation's youngest grandmaster, stood up abruptly, as if he had sat on a tack.

The 'Violet Hill' group recently worked with Tim Wheeler from the 'Girl From Mars' group on a tack which frontman Chris Martin admitted had been inspired by the band's 2010 single.

If an elderly woman burdened with packages gets on a bus, you could bet both Harrington and Weatherspoon would jump up as if sitting on a tack and give her their seat.

The '7 Days' hitmaker is currently working on his latest album in the US, where the 'Beat Again' group - made up of Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, Jonathan 'JB' Gill and Oritse Williams - came out to party with him, and he's hoping to get them to return in order to work on a tack together.

The brand and attribute formats were such that each brand and each attribute, respectively, was described on a single sheet of paper on a tacked stack.

"When we got the ball, he was taking on their fullback," a tack English fans adore with uncommon relish.

He tacked on a "not surprisingly" for good measure.

Randy Bullock just tacked on a 35-yard field goal.

He tacked on a birdie on 18 and finished at two-under 214.