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• Plain morions with riveted rims, none of your apprentice piece Spanish combs.2018, Nicholas Carter, Black Tom's Red Army, Canelo, →ISBN. From the entry lobster pot
• When self-flattery is turned up high it gets your adrenaline pumping, it rivets your attention.2007, Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery. From the entry self-flattery
• They are, as it were, pachydermal rivets, holding fast the compromised fabric of this futile, unbolted, realm.2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, page 80. From the entry pachydermal
• They make nuts, bolts, tapping screws, fasteners, anchors, togglers, drills, taps, rings, sockets and pop rivets.2002, Stephen Ausherman, Typical Pigs, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry toggler
• The Safety Board monitored the FAA's and Boeing's tests and research into the bellcrank shear rivet failures.2002 March 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “767 Bellcrank Anomalies”, in Aircraft Accident Brief: EgyptAir Flight 990, Boeing…. From the entry high-time
• German silvers are also used in ornamental hardware, costume jewelry, valves, rivets, springs, and plumbing fixtures.1998, The Encyclopedia Americana: International Edition, Volume 1, page 582. From the entry german silver
• New in Henry's first French war were almain rivets, mass-produced South German plate body armours (see Fig. 3.3).2018, Steven Gunn, The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry almain rivet
• In addition to the noncentering of the rivet holes, one of the rivets was tapered and the two rivets were overlapping.2005, Failure Analysis of Engineering Structures. From the entry noncentering
• So far all she’d managed to bring in was a handful of rivets pressed into some cherry bakewells.2002, Harry Hill, “Lady Aitken Bakes Exceedingly Good Cakes”, in Last Flight from Deathrow, London: Time Warner Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry cherry bakewell
• It was soon recognised that women rivet hotters complained the most; not only was this hot work, but noisy and dirty too.2012, Peter Timms, In and Around Swindon Works. From the entry hotter
• This archer of the Earl of Northumberland's contingent (centre) is shown without his 'Almain rivet', displaying instead the coat supplied to men of this contingent.2012, Martin Windrow, Osprey Men-At-Arms: A Celebration, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry almain rivet
• The blades with tangs or short “necks,” where the handles are attached with two rivets, seem to be more common in LM III Crete.2011, Jeffrey S. Soles, Costis Davaras, Mochlos IIC: Period IV, page 49. From the entry tanged
• A peytral protected the horse's breast, while the crinet, made of overlapping steel plates joined by leather straps or rivets, protected its neck.2009 January 1, Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones, Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set, Infobase Publishing…. From the entry tester
• The besagew had a strap riveted to its back that could be fastened to the spaudler so that the besagew hung free over the gap.1999, R. Ewart Oakeshott, A Knight and His Armor. From the entry besagew
• Loads of screens (although most of them are rather vacuous), slick, cutsie graphics and an alarming tendency to keep one riveted for hours.1989, Jonathan Davies, Spooked (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 46. From the entry arcade adventure
• All longitudinal seams are dectuple riveted.1916 January, “Pacific Type of Locomotive for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad”, in Railway and Locomotive Engineering, page 20. From the entry dectuple
• Some potential travelers are riveted to their television sets, captivated by the constant news reports about the war, a condition that some people are calling the “CNN effect.”2003 January 28, Eben Shapiro, “Fear of terrorism is curbing travel”, in The New York Times. From the entry CNN effect
• Creepers threaded the wrecked windows of the coaches, ancient and chalky brown with their riveted seams and welted coamings like something proofed for descents into the sea.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 92. From the entry coaming
• A brigander - better known as a brigandine - was a closefitting jacket lined with small overlapping plates of iron which were fastened by rivets to their textile covering.1978, Martin R. Holmes, Shakespeare and Burbage: The Sound of Shakespeare as Devised to Suit the Voice and Talents of His Principal…. From the entry brigander
• All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 186. From the entry secure
• I shivered in every limb, and a cold beady dew sprang out on my temples as I stood with eyes riveted on the spectral figure before me.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major. From the entry beady
• The peer from all the eyes under all the bangs of crimpy hair concentrated into one enormous “looking,” riveted upon the turning of the stair where I would first show.1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts. From the entry crimpy

Meaning of rivet

1. noun A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
2. noun Any fixed point or certain basis.
3. noun A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.

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How do you use rivet in a sentence?

Rivet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Terror riveted him to the spot.”

What is a short sentence with rivet?

“All longitudinal seams are dectuple riveted.”

What does rivet mean?

Rivet means a cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.