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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