How to Use bolt in a Sentence

bolt

1 of 2 noun

• Pull the bolt towards you to secure the wings against the wall.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2023
• Pull the bolt back until the wings catch the wall and screw the bolt into the bracket.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Then, Franck Boli’s left foot struck the ball like a bolt of lightning.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
• In the image, three of the four bolts appear to be missing.
  — Mark Walker, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• The mount is a simple C-clamp style and can be removed with the twist of two bolts.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• The light is believed to be the glow from a bolt of lightning near the planet's north pole.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• The lightning bolts are still used as a sign of white supremacy.
  — Aria Jones, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• In that instant, an epiphany struck like a lightning bolt.
  — Javier Hasse, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• There are likely two bolts on the inner side to be removed.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• If your mower doesn’t cut stripes well, there are tricks to help your stripes pop, as well as kits that bolt on to do the same thing.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• The bolt hit the baby girl in the upper torso and exited near the armpit before striking the mom in the chest.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 27 June 2023
• But in some cases the bolt that holds the steering wheel in place might not have been properly torqued.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• The pop-out roof panel is now attached with three hand levers rather than four bolts and a ratchet wrench.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• The People’s Bank of China’s latest rate cut wasn’t exactly a bolt out of the blue.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• That’s easy to do when a lightning bolt hits several miles away.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
• The report said the bolt singed his white sneakers, burned patches of hair on his right leg and melted his socks to his feet.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• Based on the damage observed in the plane, the NTSB determined that the four bolts that were supposed to keep the door plug in place were missing.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
• The research team steered the bolt over the final 50 meters before impact.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 19 Jan. 2023
• The lightning bolt flashes on stage, a floodlight prowls, the rainbow array of stage lights pulse.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• But in the new system, wires pass through the titanium bolt and into the robotic arm.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
• If a bolt of lightning upends the supply of a good, then its price will certainly rise.
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 1 Dec. 2023
• The plane might not crash with the loss of one bolt, but if bolts keep disappearing, the plane will eventually fall out of the sky.
  — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• Firearms are not allowed; air guns and captive bolt pistols are.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• The pain shifted from my back into my leg like a lightening bolt.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• Our early ancestors must have craned their necks in awe when a lightning bolt lit up the night sky.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• The winchmen dropped the bathysphere back on board and unscrewed the bolts to release the skinny men into the afternoon sun.
  — Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• United Airlines reported that some of its aircraft were found to have loose bolts on the part that fell off the Friday flight.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
• Dramatic video showed the moment a bolt of lightning struck him while on the field, WCBS reported.
  — Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 16 June 2023
• Most of the bags feature patches of a heart, a smiley face, and a lightning bolt, though one color has a rainbow instead of a heart.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 19 Apr. 2024
• Investigators looking into the Alaska flight say bolts that help keep the door plug in place were missing after repair work at a Boeing factory.
  — David Koenig, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024

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bolt

2 of 2 verb

• The buck bolted from his bed just off the edge of the sendero.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Legacy bolts away from the pack up to about 60 mph.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• The man fired two more shots as Kinnan bolted across the street and jumped a fence.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The cashier walked to a gently slanted rack bolted to the back wall.
  — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• In an instant, one of the boys grabbed the money, and the whole group bolted down a side street.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The brakes, wheels, and tires will even bolt right up to the F-150, though the wheel offset is different.
  — Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2022
• Last month, Colorado shook things up even more by bolting to the Big 12.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• The track bolted back into the top 10 on the chart, entering the region for the first time in months.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• The researchers told Live Science that the fish’s fins enabled it to bolt up at prey and surprise them.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• The senior bolted another 5 yards to tie the game at 7-7.
  — Haley Sawyer, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• The time from concept to bolting it on the race car can be anywhere from, depending on the size of the part, three months to nine months.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
• The entire assembly will be bolted to the lid in a later step.
  — Joe Kohl-Riggs, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• Once the position of the skirts are verified, they will be bolted down to the slab with four hold-down studs each.
  — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• One cure is to make frequent sowings and harvest the young leaves before the plants begin to bolt.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Jan. 2022
• As time goes on, these tools will of course get smarter and bolt on more functions—such as being able to scour the web for images.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 3 July 2023
• And at the first sign of warm weather, the lettuce bolted like there was a warrant out for its arrest.
  — Michelle Slatalla, wsj.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• It was bolted to a tall plinth, lit up at night, fenced off and adjacent to a busy state highway.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• Then a frustrated Belafonte bolted out of his seat and picked up the phone to call his wife.
  — Ernie Suggs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The Pats have only made the postseason once since TB12 bolted and have not won a playoff game since then.
  — Nate Davis, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2024
• The transaxle case and bellhousing are stronger, the six-plate clutch is stouter, and the output shaft flanges are larger and bolt up to higher-strength half-shafts.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2022
• Once, Christy bolted from the mall on a shopping trip and wandered five miles in the cold and rain to a Wendy’s, where the police were called and bought her dinner.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Bunnies bumped by the hunter above will usually bolt downhill to the hunter below.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Feb. 2023
• Then Asa stands, shoving tables out of his way, bolting toward the door.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• And the first-floor entrance to the east tower, a necessary fire escape, had been bolted shut.
  — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
• The attack and engine problems led three of the American pilots to quickly bolt from the area.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
• Here is one crop that likes cooler weather and will bolt — go to seed — if the temperatures are too high.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2022
• Oregon and Washington followed, bolting the Pac-12 for the Big Ten.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
• While all of that was happening, Goodwin, lined up wide on the left, ran at and bolted by safety Nick Scott.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
• Body camera video of the incident played at the news conference shows Laing bolting through the yard and carrying a handgun.
  — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
• An orange no trespassing sign was bolted to a nearby tree.
  — Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024