How to Use tooth and nail in a Sentence

tooth and nail

adverb

• I'll fight tooth and nail to win the finals.
• Guys used to fight tooth and nail for that to drive those runs in.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• And because of that, BYU fought tooth and nail to keep it.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• The Andreacchios have had to fight tooth and nail for the truth.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2021
• Houston, the Bearcats clawed tooth and nail for 40 minutes with the Cougars.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 28 Jan. 2023
• Junior fought tooth and nail to bring his new monster to the big screen.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• Given the stakes, Google and its peers seem likely to fight tooth and nail.
  — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• Both teams fought tooth and nail for the final 10 minutes.
  — David Thompson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
• The Gulf Shores folks are fighting it tooth and nail, as if the fake shark posed a real threat.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 27 June 2021
• Focus Features will fight tooth and nail to get the film in front of the right awards voters.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2022
• Both teams, however, had to fight tooth and nail to score in the second half.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
• Over the course of the last century, women fought tooth and nail for a basic right: the right to vote.
  — Tina Tchen For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
• Fighting our ass off, tooth and nail, trying to get back in.
  — Amos Morale Iii, NOLA.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• Though much of the focus has been on Berrios and Kaegi, Raila fought tooth and nail to get on the ballot.
  — Ashley Mizuo, Chicago Reader, 20 Mar. 2018
• Plus, there's also Nicholas, who seems to fighting tooth and nail to get her back.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 3 Dec. 2020
• Russia fought the new rules tooth and nail, yet finally had to yield.
  — Thane Gustafson, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
• My parents fought tooth and nail to get us here in 1989 when the Soviet Union fell.
  — WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• The same cannot be said about Verstappen, who fought tooth and nail for this trophy.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 May 2022
• Oil and gas companies will fight tooth and nail to delay it.
  — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Elon Musk is fighting tooth and nail to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2022
• What probably doesn’t make a ton of sense is to fight tooth and nail for the 10th seed, where the Jazz currently stand.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
• And a good film makes our heroes or our villains have to fight tooth and nail in order to hold on to those things.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 6 Apr. 2022
• Megan’s control over her output is at a level many fight tooth and nail to achieve.
  — Collier Schorr; Styling By Samira Nasr, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Feb. 2021
• Guys fought tooth and nail until the last whistle, and for that not to go in our favor kills the guys in our locker room.
  — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• Companies are fighting tooth and nail for the best tech talent, and there's not enough to go around.
  — Emilien Coquard, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• And, he's been fighting tooth and nail against voter I.D. laws, which 70 plus percent of the country agrees with.
  — Fox News, 19 Apr. 2018
• Clemson fought tooth and nail to defeat Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2019
• The Federal Reserve will fight tooth and nail to prevent that.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
• For a decade, these three have fought tooth and nail for championships and often kept the rest of the series at bay in doing so.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2018
• Croker is left to fight tooth and nail to defend his empire from a disastrous fall from grace.
  — Emily Maskell, Vulture, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024