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noun

rivet

a short metal pin hammered flat at both ends to hold plates together

In a sentence

Six example sentences with rivet, each labelled with its topic.

  • Crews set each Eiffel Tower rivet while it still glowed, and the pin shrank as it cooled, pulling the iron plates tight.

    Architecture

  • Wartime shipyards trained thousands of women to drive a rivet through two hull plates with a pneumatic hammer in seconds.

    History

  • The sculptor joined the steel sheets with one exposed rivet after another, leaving the flattened heads visible as part of the design.

    Art

  • An airliner's skin is held on by a rivet every inch, each one set flush so it will not disturb the airflow.

    Technology

  • The prop shop joined the robot costume's aluminum plates with a rivet at every seam, each hammered flat so nothing would snag.

    Movies

  • Walking across the old iron bridge, we could count every rivet in the girders, each head as big as a coin.

    Travel

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