RIVET in a Sentence
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39 example sentences for RIVET, such as:
1. As usual, every eye was riveted on his face.
2. My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes.
3. As a child I remember being riveted by my grandfather's appearance.
4. The lieutenant explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters.
5. Nothing says quality like thick bridle leather, brass rivets, and metal fasteners.
2. My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes.
3. As a child I remember being riveted by my grandfather's appearance.
4. The lieutenant explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters.
5. Nothing says quality like thick bridle leather, brass rivets, and metal fasteners.
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Meanings and Examples of RIVET
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rivet
n. heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together
n. ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me: I trembled to hear some fatal word spoken which would at once declare and rivet the spell.
2 When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention.
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Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
3 The lieutenant explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters.
4 But with all their eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of the other boats obeyed not the command.
5 He even suffered their hands to meet, without betraying the least emotion, or varying his riveted attitude of attention.
6 The Indians riveted their eyes on the rocks, and listened with an attention that seemed to turn them into stone.
7 The young man was relieved from the awkwardness of making any further protestations of his own demerits, by an exclamation from Chingachgook, and the attitude of riveted attention assumed by his son.
8 The Indian gravely raised his paddle, and pointed in the direction in which his own steady look was riveted.
9 As usual, every eye was riveted on his face.
10 He met everywhere, with eyes riveted on his own, heads erect and nostrils expanded, as if each individual present felt himself able and willing, singly, to redress the wrongs of his race.
11 Each eye was riveted on the center of that ring, which contained the objects of so much and of so common an interest.
12 A dagger-pointed gaze from without his blackened face was held toward the enemy, but his greater hatred was riveted upon the man, who, not knowing him, had called him a mule driver.
13 Dantes' whole attention was riveted on a man who could thus forget his own misfortunes while occupying himself with the destinies of others.
14 Here Haidee cast a significant glance at Monte Cristo, whose eyes had been riveted on her countenance during the whole course of her narrative.
15 The dying man's eyes were all the time riveted on the door, through which he hoped succor would arrive.
Example Sentence:
1 It was an amazing film - I was absolutely riveted.
2 My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes.
3 As a child I remember being riveted by my grandfather's appearance.
4 He was young -- perhaps from twenty- eight to thirty -- tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
5 Without speaking, without smiling, without seeming to recognize in me a human being, he only twined my waist with his arm and riveted me to his side.
6 Nothing says quality like thick bridle leather, brass rivets, and metal fasteners.
7 The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.