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    bolt example sentences

    bolt


    bolted


    bolting


    bolts


    1. So, with his one good arm, Onidas gathered up a bolt and loaded it, frantically cranking the winch to add tension to the drawstring


    2. The bolt barely lodged itself into Vald's thigh and was flicked away like a stray crumb


    3. and meditation, but during the day I could dream neither nut nor bolt


    4. including Russ, John and Bolt, pile off the bus as one of the doors of the building begins to creak open


    5. He glances over at Bolt, who has wandered into the snack bar with his camera


    6. Bolt indulges them, a vacuous grin on his face - click, whir, click, whir


    7. Bolt stands at the front of a line of customers, sifting through some photos


    8. The bedouin gives Bolt a little shove on the back


    9. Bolt looks nervously about, beats a hasty retreat from the photo shop


    10. Then they head up the street, just as Bolt scurries from the shop, muttering loudly to himself, face twitching

    11. A bloodied Bolt wakes up, looks about him, dazed


    12. Bolt shakes his head, grins stupidly


    13. Terry Bolt, now dressed to the hilt in traditional garb, sits on one side of the bus, furiously studying a copy of the Koran and mumbling to himself


    14. Bolt stares out the window, a silly grin plastered on his face


    15. Bolt, his face wedged against the side of the bus,


    16. Bolt has gone from screaming to moaning


    17. Bolt begins to search frantically about for his Koran


    18. Bolt snatches it away, retreats into a corner of the bus, face twitching wildly


    19. Bolt stands to one side, ignoring the laboring men, taking seemingly random shots of something on the other side of the highway that only he can see: click, whir, click, whir


    20. Bolt and the other teachers follow suit

    21. An annoying nasal voice gives the call to noon prayer just as Terry Bolt - decked out in traditional garb -


    22. CLERIC 3, leaving the mosque, spies him, begins waving his hands frantically and shouting angrily in Arabic to Bolt


    23. Brother Bolt! Come with us to


    24. Bolt is in the back of the pickup as it bounces along in the desert


    25. His new friends chatter in Arabic as Bolt smiles stupidly, nods occasionally


    26. Bolt watches, fascinated


    27. Bolt rattles his head in assent, grins, takes the hose emanating from the hooka, closes his eyes, puts the mouthpiece between his lips and takes a huge drag


    28. The young Arabs toss Bolt unceremoniously from the back of the speeding Nissan truck without slowing down


    29. Bolt looks up at the top of a hill just as Ahmed’s 747 appears over the hilltop, roars past overhead on its way to landing just a few hundred yards away


    30. Bolt brings his camera up, quickly fires off a few shots: click, whir, click, whir

    31. Bolt pushes along the fence row, snapping pictures as he walks of rocks, an acacia tree covered with windblown plastic bags, his shoe, a pile of garbage rotting in the sun, a dead sheep rotting in the sun


    32. Bolt, covered in dust and fresh goat gore, sits on his ass in the mine field


    33. Bolt wanders into the photo shop with Al Snafu


    34. Bolt opens them, begins to thumb through


    35. Bolt shakes his head


    36. Terry Bolt is on the witness stand


    37. Bolt smiles, faces begins to twitch


    38. FLASH! Bolt steps back into the scene to capture the moment


    39. Bolt squeezes off one more frame - FLASH! - before joining the exodus


    40. The padlock on the door was unlocked and the bolt moved back

    41. The smell of oil on a bolt mechanism


    42. Each word of the sentence was a separate boom of thunder on its own bolt of lightning


    43. You have to pay attention now, I wouldn't want to be holding this handle if a bolt hit the rigging


    44. As nervous as they were over the scream and thunder of the shuttle coming in, that was all it took for the herd to bolt


    45. Even so, a lightning bolt of pain stabbed it with its every stride


    46. He eventually found the leese's bolt hole and reached in there as far as he could


    47. It might be dead, in which case someone was poaching his territory, or it might be too gorged from a kill to fit thru it's bolt hole


    48. The brass bolt that should have slid


    49. I went to bolt out of the car to run


    50. He sat bolt upright in bed and waited














































    1. Her mount let out a magnificent bellow as it struggled to its feet in a cloud of flying gravel and bolted after its companion without her


    2. I want him on the other side of a locked and bolted


    3. The blue lantern of An Garda Siochana bolted over the entrance was cracked and peeled


    4. I sat there, numb and stupefied as my guard bolted the door


    5. We bolted down our chicken and rice as quickly as we could


    6. It probably bolted also when you brought noon thru, but it couldn't be more than a mile or two away


    7. Fred shut and double bolted the door


    8. Both girls had been on beasts leaving early in the stampede and were probably ahead of him, though he hadn't caught a glimpse of either in the darkness since their thongas bolted with them


    9. My father cleaned the puke off his shoes and we bolted for home


    10. Tarak bolted up as the memory spilled out

    11. I shut the main entrance door and bolted it


    12. Ish bolted the door and blocked it with the sofa


    13. ” While he looked spellbound by her unintelligible speech, she continued with, “What’s the music like around here?” This time he gave her a sheepish smile and went back thru the door and bolted it once again


    14. men went and bolted the door


    15. She bolted through the door and with a squeal of tires, she was gone and the evil spell in the kitchen and dining room lifted somewhat


    16. Miss Hill quickly closed and bolted the door behind her hostess when she was merely a pace or two away down the passage


    17. He removed the cover over the hole in the ground and fitted a slim wax ring on top of it, then set the pump shaft neatly onto the rim plate protruding from the hole, and bolted the connection together


    18. brightly-painted caravans were bolted shut, with their tethered horses


    19. The rains marched through as if they were iron instead of water, and when in an hour or two the wind abated enough for me to look around, my wagon had floated off, the horse had bolted, and I was knee deep in a stream of runoff where my tent had been


    20. – the door of his office now firmly closed and bolted against

    21. It’s raining when I get home after work but I optimistically check to see if there is any post in the box which is bolted to the outside of the cottage


    22. The horses reared and bolted, taking their helpless driver and passengers careening into the fencing


    23. He tried to pull the door open but it was bolted shut


    24. and bolted diagonally across the hall, too scared to look at her pursuer’s location


    25. He wanted to stand in big boots, bolted to the floor, and pound out his messages like statues engraved upon mountains


    26. The beast bolted onward and soon, it was gone


    27. Emily's head bolted to the right, standing beside her was Tetloan


    28. She bolted onward as though they did not exist


    29. indoors with their windows and doors bolted securely


    30. Hogan bolted the rest of his porridge down, stood up and gestured with his head to Conradie as he walked to the door

    31. past her and bolted out of the cave


    32. The sections mated with a loud clang that echoed thru the entire ship if you had an audio pickup bolted to the frame


    33. The boys were looking for one of the horses that had bolted and they heard your scream


    34. Victoria was the first one out, she bolted to the cathedral


    35. With their halos little more than a bluish mist, the pair turned and bolted – or tried to


    36. wisely slept with my door bolted for the entire week


    37. She knew it must have been propelled there by the force of Tragus's swing, but it might as well have bolted on its own


    38. The door was hastily shut and bolted, he noted


    39. and I bolted at my target


    40. They bolted the doors and ran to take up places beside the Guardians that were positioned at each window

    41. “Have you heard about this new lot that just landed the 125th Brigade?” I bolted upright and shouted at him


    42. Rosemary bolted off the chair


    43. Automatically she bolted the door


    44. He bolted through the door again and took the stairs in a leap


    45. Finally, in desperation, I bolted up from my hand-crocheted cave ready to boot the cat all the way back to the Humane Society from whence he came


    46. He’d had enough and pleading a headache made for the door, down the path past the windmill and bolted towards the station, he wanted sanctuary


    47. They heard some shuffling in the back room and then an enormous Crash! Forgo and Dorro bolted in the direction of the noise and burst into the rear office


    48. The fossil bolted out of her


    49. It was a quick walk across the wharf, and with a curt nod, he walked past the guards and bolted up the gangplank onto the vessel


    50. These hand holds were approximately three feet long bolted into the cinder block walls with lag bolts and lead shields













































    1. After bolting his food, Tom joined the others from his intake


    2. He flew across the water faster than he had ever moved before on any conveyance for he had never ridden a bolting keda


    3. It would be Vulwulf himself who would at last take action: he would somehow haphazardly make his way to the doors and throw them open, bolting into the rainy night in hopes of ending the attack


    4. Intrigued, they traced his position back to the time when he would have had to keep the horses from bolting away


    5. Only two things kept me from bolting: Dorian’s presence and his revelation the night before that if she did bite me, it would kill her as surely as it did me


    6. took the precaution of bolting the sliding door


    7. “So that’s why!” He exclaimed, bolting to his


    8. She considered bolting, but the passage behind her was clogged with more people who had come to join the crowd


    9. They burst the door open just as I was bolting it, and chased me


    10. Pa held up both hands like he was stopping a team of bolting mules

    11. jungles and bolting prey


    12. Murphy caught sight of the Prince’s group and dropped low to buzz their horses which startled two into bolting and Corwin’s to rear


    13. The black craned his neck to stare into the starlit road behind Conan; but he opened the gate without comment, and closed it again behind the Cimmerian, locking and bolting it


    14. There was a sudden cessation of sounds in the forest and he was bolting even before Arianell said anything


    15. “Diomed! Spiorad capall!” I heard an answering bugle and exploded bolting for the stalls


    16. When the bolting Rottweiler was within a few feet of the


    17. contemplated bolting out of there


    18. The flat top was the mounting plate, which had four holes in it, for bolting to the engine, and a large hole in the middle for the prop shaft to pass through


    19. She made ready for any monstrosity that might come bolting out of the shadows


    20. Samsung came to a halt and turned around in time to see Brale bolting through the doorway

    21. killed him if she had seen him bolting down good food without chewing it thoroughly


    22. created a rumpus in the hall by bolting for the table where the hotel register lay


    23. moment before bolting into the bush


    24. without a word, he turned, and walked out, bolting the door again


    25. That made her think of Cam and wonder how long he was going to stay mad at her for bolting


    26. The ambiguous cheering from outside the car mutated inside Byron’s head into one big cheer for him, suitably deluded he finally stepped from the car accompanied, and guarded against bolting, by the beautiful Flower and Candy


    27. I turned around, with my nerves still on edge, only to see a lioness bolting out of the tall grass


    28. Like a Shepherd after a bolting ewe – with a gleeful grin for a fresh chase – the trooper sprang to his feet


    29. “Death to the Great Satan!” one youth screamed defiantly from the back of the hall, bolting out the side seconds later, fumbling across a pile of merchandise, spreading it around the ground


    30. Bolting in the opposite direction, he bit open his wrist, dripping a trail of his blood for them to follow

    31. Dreams of Party immortality and political history-making have been replaced with tiny nightmares; nightmares that are not of the kind to have you bolting upright in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming in fear


    32. exasperation, as I struggled to halt him from bolting


    33. The pain of Laura"s bolting gradually faded but a tenuous shadow never completely left me


    34. The traffic was in full swing, the crowds were swirling noisily around the Midan El Tahrir, on foot, in honking cars and bolting bicycles; people clambering on and alighting off leaning, overstuffed buses where you could not believe another single, harassed human being would fit in


    35. It was all Moses could do to keep from bolting to


    36. bolting through a group of children to flee


    37. "He's taken to bolting himself in! As if he were worth stealing! Open, you stupid, wake up!"


    38. cap, with two lighted wax candles, and bolting the door, gave me, though


    39. At home I started bolting the main gate of our house at night


    40. Bolting to get it over

    41. I made a small sound, so as not to startle her, but instead of bolting away she only stopped and looked at me, sniffing in my direction before slowly continuing toward me


    42. In order that he might awaken early he did not close the shutters, but contented himself with bolting the door and placing on the table an unclasped and long-pointed knife, whose temper he well knew, and which was never absent from him


    43. After some drilling and bolting, I got the brackets attached to it and then mounted it back on the rover


    44. I had to keep a firm hold of Peter Pienaar to prevent myself bolting out of that house


    45. With the urgency of a bolting animal, he wanted to run


    46. The idea of bolting without a word presented itself to his mind


    47. And what had determined him? Less the opportunity of an insight into grinding and bolting than the casual fact that lodgings were to be obtained in that very farmhouse which, before its mutilation, had been the mansion of a branch of the d'Urberville family


    48. The meal was passed in commonplace talk of what he had been doing during the morning at the Abbey Mill, of the methods of bolting and the old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern improved methods, some of it seeming to have been in use ever since the days it ground for the monks in the adjoining conventual buildings—now a heap of ruins


    49. But you should know that our dinner companion has a history of bolting at the first sign of emotional complication


    50. She interpreted as an auspicious sign the ability to cross Bowery without bolting for safety










    1. From what we have seen of the way the young man lived, I was rather relieved when Stephen told me that he had fitted bolts to the doors … just in case those keys had gone wandering


    2. The soldiers unsling their weapons, pull back the bolts to cock them


    3. amid a wail of ebrased rubber and straining chassis bolts, until, with the hills and the


    4. The guard leaves, bolts the door


    5. " That was no doubt a dusty pitted hulk for it was over two and a half centuries old by now, built of bulk aluminum and steel using big bolts


    6. Despite three bolts and a sofa in front, they would break it in ten minutes flat


    7. Poly could sit happily and count pegs or screws, or bolts and nuts until drowsy with sleep


    8. His father handed him a spanner and showed him how to tighten the bolts of the bands until he could tighten no more, as his father then went back to the storeroom for another armful of pre-fitted moldings and boards


    9. We can loosen the bolts and then slide the seats together


    10. The explosive bolts blew out the doors and initiated the inflation of the emergency chutes

    11. The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Your Product


    12. robot? Was he made out of bolts and steel and not bone


    13. He turned to scowl at the creature and let fly bolts of lightning


    14. Kestides, now grown fat and prosperous, had acquired many bolts of it during a recent voyage


    15. She put out great bolts of lightning toward it, frying the thin atmosphere of space


    16. “Weapons, fire six plasma bolts across her bow, close as you can without actually hitting her


    17. deck, close to the ship’s side, and in the absence of bolts, straps were passed through the scuppers and toggled outside to which


    18. Lightning filled the sky to the east, a dozen bolts, then a hundred, a thousand blades of fire that lanced down from the heavens


    19. Ael Tarael and Alit’aren who had been resting for most of the last hour began casting balls of flame and hundreds of lightning bolts fell from the sky


    20. However, they stood out to the Jacoulra wielding balls of flame and red lightning bolts

    21. So what were they planning? How long would they wait? He changed the lightning weaves to Fire Serpents, the blue bolts moved outwards like a web of fire through the chests and torsos of hundreds of demons, burning them to ash


    22. Immortals received more thorough training with the Power during those years, though the mortal wielders were forged into weapons, using teron to tear demons apart with Air, blast them with walls of Fire, or strike them with bolts of lightning


    23. A crack of thunder broke the air, and then twin bolts of lightning flared in the distance, the pale blue glow transparent through the roof and wall of the tent


    24. It must have been nearly two hours after Adem and the kings had left that lightning flared in the night sky, roaring thunder and dozens of thick blue bolts falling in the distance


    25. The sky appeared to be on fire as more blue bolts had flared in the distance


    26. I finally found two dead bolts that I thought would work on Mother’s doors, and took them up to the check out girl


    27. “I got new dead bolts for the doors


    28. These hand holds were approximately three feet long bolted into the cinder block walls with lag bolts and lead shields


    29. Since lag bolts had been used to install theses hand holds I knew if I could get them loosened up a bit they would all come loose and I could use them as a tool to take the screws off the door


    30. Bolts of pain shot through her legs, and they gave way almost immediately

    31. He spun the lug nuts and slid the bolts out one at a time, handing them to Harper without a comment


    32. “Why are you still in the office? Shouldn’t you be on the blimp already?” she said, and the image of being badly charred on a rotating spit by a few lightning bolts flashed across my mind


    33. Raul pressed his chin on an upraised shoulder and studied his cousin with an uncomprehending gaze, while doing his best to ignore the bolts of pain his lady friend, Beth, sent shooting through his arm


    34. He made them put the crates of precious metals in the rear of the ship, strapping them down with strong bands of woven plastic and bolts through the provided eyelets into the floor-holes


    35. Around its perimeter, were restaurants, bars and hundreds of shanty-like stalls selling everything from nuts and bolts to live farm stock


    36. They avoid the nuts and bolts and come on with generalities


    37. was built in hard metal and bolts, with a tall, smoking chimney


    38. welding and bolts along the outer plating were brown with rust


    39. Cinder’s neck surged with small bolts of electricity that grew larger the longer


    40. formed a cage of blue bolts to trap him in the small space from which he couldn’t

    41. Both bolts were completely consumed by the explosion


    42. The shield wall was broken and they proceeded to pound us with their bolts


    43. He knew how to fight against bolts of energy, but had no clue about hand-to-hand, or in this case, staff-to-head combat,” I said proudly


    44. Before they could recover I spread out my fingers and sent a wave of energy bolts into their group, killing them all


    45. The bolts came so thickly and fast that they looked like solid sheets of destruction


    46. Soon there were hundreds upon hundreds of bolts of energy pelting him, overpowering his defenses and utterly destroying him


    47. side, and the bolts that held the freezer to the wall ripped free


    48. What happened was that the bolts that keep the lid of the vessel on began to stretch, and


    49. Lightning bolts are striking to the east


    50. Blue Javian lightning bolts strike upwards from the vivid colorful ocean






































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    Synonyms for "bolt"

    bolt dash deadbolt bolt of lightning thunderbolt gobble beetle off bolt out run off run out abscond absquatulate decamp go off make off rigidly stiffly bang slap slapdash smack cylinder package coil spindle spiral twist curl peg pin rivet spike coupling shock stroke

    "bolt" definitions

    a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder


    a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech


    the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key


    the act of moving with great haste


    a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length


    a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener


    a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)


    move or jump suddenly


    secure or lock with a bolt


    swallow hastily


    run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along


    leave suddenly and as if in a hurry


    eat hastily without proper chewing


    make or roll into bolts


    in a rigid manner


    directly