Nailing

Synonyms for "nailing" (353 found)

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Related words (176)

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Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

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There are simpler things in life than finding a good husband. Nailing jelly to a tree, for example.

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His attempt at nailing jelly to the wall finally succeeded.

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Zaila Avant-garde, 14, jumped and twirled with joy upon being declared the winner after nailing the spelling of “murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian citrus trees.

Source: tatoeba (10194892)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.