Sentence examples for rivet I from inspiring English sources

To get the rivet, I had to inch up the outside of a massive steel truss 330ft above the Forth estuary and scrabble around in a pile of rust that had once been part of the girder.

In another corner of the gloomy, windowless station, behind plywood construction barriers, New Jersey Transit is also ripping up huge concrete slabs and taking down heavy riveted I-beams to install new escalators, elevators and ramps to improve access to Tracks 1 through 12.

Patti Smith's Just Kids (Bloomsbury), although riveting, I found slightly naive.

It's true that not all history books are riveting (I have drooled into my fair share), but there is no reason that they shouldn't be.

Thus, guiltily riveted, I watched Jade: Bride to Be and Jade's Wedding (Living) in a state of suspended critical disbelief.

Annie Lennox brought something electric to the end of Hozier's "Take Me to Church," and then sang a riveting "I Put a Spell on You," causing the stadium and the Internet to freak out.

One would think all this feather and fur would leave a reader inured, but when Milgrom picks up a scalpel, the scene is riveting: "I cut through the scored skin, then work my way to the outer edges of the body, loosening the pelt, which I peel off the animal's delicate rib cage.

Yet while I'm sure that the intricacies of soundtrack licensing are riveting, I am spending my festival elsewhere, wandering amid the day parties and night showcases of bands, bands, bands, most of them conveniently concentrated just steps apart on Sixth Street and Red River in downtown Austin.

Yet while I'm sure the intricacies of soundtrack licensing are riveting, I spend my SXSW elsewhere wandering amid the day parties and night showcases of bands, bands, bands, most of them conveniently concentrated just steps apart on downtown Austin's Sixth Street and Red River.

I also remember how riveting I found the experience of watching her acceptance speech on last summer's ESPY awards show after she'd received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

Much in the same way some people find eavesdropping on a sparring couple at a restaurant a moth-to-a-flame guilty pleasure, when I get a front-row seat to someone else's beauty routine I'm similarly riveted; I stop whatever I am doing to take it all in.