How to Use nail down in a Sentence

nail down

phrasal verb

• The goal of the game is to nail down the exact values of these numbers.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2024
• Kendrick Bourne has had a terrific camp and has nailed down the third spot.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• The case gets dicey when the bond for Candy’s release becomes a headache to nail down.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
• But for a critic, the job is to start with the gut feeling and then try to nail down where that’s coming from.
  — Megan Ditrolio, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• The answers are hard to nail down — with no time to wase in figuring them out.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• As the Rangers were nailing down the Scherzer trade, they were being shut out in San Diego.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 30 July 2023
• Ovalle, on the other hand, nailed down the left wing spot for herself and dealt her damage from there.
  — Neel Shelat, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• As for other big decisions, the guest list is yet to be nailed down.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• And, as soon as the curtain went up, we were pelted with anything that wasn’t nailed down.
  — John Paul Bullock, SPIN, 19 July 2024
• Lynch got nailed down at second base on a Paetow ground ball.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | [e-mail], al, 3 June 2023
• But after Post and his team nailed down the process, some of the first people to test the product were Post’s children, 9 and 13 years old at the time.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• What was trickiest to nail down was the thing that looks the clumsiest: the student film.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2024
• Excessive heat watches are used when the timing of the heat event isn't nailed down yet.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• This 402-year thing for school funding only added to the sense that the school scene in Wisconsin is not nailed down.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2023
• Cecil said that timetable, and the simple fact that a location has been nailed down, puts Mobile in the lead for the state.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• Cowboys stars nailed down the 20-17 victory in the Kroenke Dome in front of a mostly pro-Dallas crowd.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2023
• The report was only able to nail down the cause of one of them with high confidence: a weather balloon.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• Senior Garret Fountain is the only one who nailed down a starting spot on the post-spring depth chart.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Next, the firms, the authority and the Orioles will nail down what, precisely, will be done with the ballpark.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
• Much of this is stuff that other smartwatch makers already nailed down a while back.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 15 May 2024
• Funding, often elusive, would need to be nailed down and permits pulled.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• The song list hasn’t been nailed down, but fans may hear some Prince deep cuts or additional songs by the Time or Apollonia 6.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2024
• Season 24 of The Voice is heating up, as the hopefuls look to nail down their places in the competition during the battle rounds.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2023
• While fares haven’t been nailed down, Rollert estimates that a trip from one end to the other — Watertown to near the Hatch Shell — will cost between $35 and $50.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• Your political views can be hard for people to nail down.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• This included everything from how to nail down a beat face, to what lip oils to add to my nighttime lip-care routine.
  — Larry Stansbury, Essence, 22 July 2024
• At the time of our interview, Kripke has been nailing down the details of the fifth season in the writers’ room and has not brought actors into the process yet.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• Tonkin had just finished off Monday’s 4-2 win in Kansas City by nailing down a save, the second of his career and his first with the Yankees.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
• Guest opera singers took their turns with the orchestra to nail down timing, expression and theatrics.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• Its findings should nail down ingredients that determine the odds of life in the hidden ocean.
  — science.org, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024