Example Sentences

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This cycle, Trump and DeSantis have been nailing down key endorsements in Super Tuesday states, starting to hire staff and readying supporters to knock on doors.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

Tell him with my love—I have been nailing up the children in the way they should go—and have made a real hedge of cuttings!

From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Eden, Horatia K. F.

We have been nailing and plugging bits together, and working them in to the best of our ability, until our last nail is expended; and now we seem to be at a standstill.

From Turned Adrift by Hodgson, Edward S.