Sentence examples for riveting that from inspiring English sources

Building the plane with composite barrels also cuts production time and labor costs, as well as weight, by eliminating much of the riveting that holds aluminum jets together.

The inner and outer firebox of the Merchant Navy class was constructed using welding, as opposed to the riveting that was more common practice.

These were constructed using welded steel as opposed to the riveting that was more common practice, making for cheaper construction and easier maintenance.

Tchaikowsky was as much of an outsider as a Jew as he was in any other capacity, but it is riveting that, as a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, he would choose this play of all possible Shakespearean subjects.

But Charlton Heston, cast as an upright Mexican narcotics agent, insisted Welles write and direct, and it was transformed into a baroque masterpiece – dark, complex, perverse, riveting – that puzzled Universal, which released it recut with added scenes.

In this case, though, the shifts in tone during and just after Murray's monologue are so surprising and so riveting that you're immediately rapt again.

The iron originates from nails and rivets that were used to put the massive ship together.

Think of buckled leather straps crossing a naked back or gilded rivets that were more rarified than raunchy.

Many of the pieces "have rivets that look like a fuselage," said Paulo Bacchi, president of the company's operations in the United States.

Modest ornaments are gold caps on the rivets that join hilt and blade, but the whole hilt is often cased in gold.

The devices he was wearing at the time -- leather boots with thick steel bars and rivets that cut into the bottoms of his feet -- kept breaking.