How to Use cleat in a Sentence

cleat

noun

• Butt each cleat to the square and attach it with four 1 1⁄4-inch screws.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2021
• Nail along these lines to fasten the back to the sides, bottom and cleat.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2020
• Then a starter kit with pink shin guards and cleats caught her eye.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• The top edge of this cleat is sawed at an angle to match the sides, and the lid hinges are screwed to it.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• Attach the two pole box cleats to the top inside of box with 1-1/4-inch screws.
  — Lucy Wendel, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Apr. 2020
• The other cleat had some scribbles and the handprint of the youngest daughter.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 21 June 2021
• But that one time his cleat was in the ground, the collision was made and his foot didn’t come out.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 5 Oct. 2021
• Schwartz had an elastic band running down the back of his right leg all the way down to his cleat.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2019
• The bottoms of both cleats are a gradient from gold to white.
  — Jack McKessy, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• On the eve of the game, the last of the year, seniors burn a pair of cleats in a moving-on ceremony.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• The 24-year-old's cleats are already bound for Canton, though.
  — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2019
• The onetime soccer star traded in her cleats for a pair of heels at age of 15.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Increase your traction with a pair of slip-on ice cleats.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
• The Utes offensive line put a cleat in the FieldTurf and drove the Ducks toward the mountains.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2021
• Both teams had to change their cleats to improve their footing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• Now clamp a cleat to the saw table so that the crown is firmly supported.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
• One of the hardest things an athlete has to do is to know when the time has come to throw in the towel, hang up the cleats, or put away the stick.
  — Bird Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Sep. 2019
• My big plan was to become a show choir girl who had never heard of cleats or free throws.
  — Sam Reece, SELF, 12 Oct. 2023
• With his gift card, Roberts picked out a fishing shirt, cap, socks and football cleats.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 5 July 2023
• Shoe game Klein, a 23-year-old right-hander, wore a yellow right cleat and a blue one on his left.
  — Tim Booth and Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• Rather than allowing the mind to sprint ahead, simply put one cleat in front of the other.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
• Using the center mark as a guide, mark a level line to depict the location of the top of the cleat.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 22 July 2021
• Paired with the BigCatch saddles, the channels and cleat make tie down easy and secure.
  — Field & Stream Commerce Team, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• Air Jordan cleats are now fairly common to see on the NFL field.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• For those with the proper footwear (ice cleats or similar), there's a 1.3-mile loop from the far end of the beach called Great Head Trail.
  — Erinne Magee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• The cleat on his planting foot is half a size smaller than his normal shoes.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 6 Dec. 2019
• Make small pencil marks on both case sides to indicate the center of each shelf, the bottom and the cleat.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2020
• Joe Musgrove, hardened steel at the start who has not dipped a cleat into the sixth inning the last three games.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Eventually, Fleenor landed the helicopter atop the glacier and handed me a pair of ice cleats to slide over my boots.
  — David Amsden, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• Detroit’s City Walls program sources local artists to paint the cleats, which will be auctioned off with proceeds sent toward a charity of the artist’s choice.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024