How to Use nuts and bolts in a Sentence

nuts and bolts

noun

• In the kitchen, as in life, so much is just about the plain old nuts and bolts.
  — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Or to know the nuts and bolts about how this song or that song got in.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• Prince William is getting to know the nuts and bolts of his new role.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2022
• That brings us to the nuts and bolts of Fitch’s analysis.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• The actual making of art comes once all the nuts and bolts are out of the way.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Conley knows how to run a team, from the nuts and bolts to its beating heart.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• These are the film’s best moments — the nuts and bolts of becoming a priest.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
• Part of the problem is that the shortage goes far beyond the nuts and bolts of a machine.
  — Joseph Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• What Williamson did is get into the nuts and bolts of why markets are not good for that. .
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2020
• All nuts and bolts should be tight and no parts of the swing set should wobble or jiggle.
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• What exactly does that look like, in the nuts and bolts of gameplay?
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• This feature is for those who want to be safer online but don't want to mess with the nuts and bolts.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• The day-to-day nuts and bolts of the business will be a continued focus as well.
  — Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• As for the nuts and bolts of playing fantasy, not much has changed.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 5 Aug. 2024
• An actual trade might have a few more bells and whistles, but that’s the nuts and bolts of it.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
• Ellerbe and other fans helped screw in a few nuts and bolts into the new Bailey’s first row.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 6 Aug. 2020
• For Trump, aides said, a deal with Kim would not just be about the nuts and bolts of disarmament.
  — Mark Landler, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2018
• In all of his books, McCarthy is a gearhead, a man obsessed with hardware and the nuts and bolts of things.
  — Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• Our General Fund, which is the money that’s for the nuts and bolts, is $114.5 million.
  — Nick Sortal, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• The show gets into the nuts and bolts of applying for a K-1 visa, also known as the fiance visa.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 24 Apr. 2021
• There was too much focus on partying with the cool kids, and too little on the nuts and bolts.
  — Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 23 Mar. 2023
• Lewis had screws, nuts and bolts installed to stabilize the area and was in a boot until late March.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
• Inside was a clutch of poles, a bunch of nuts and bolts, and many yards of polyester mosquito netting.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 July 2019
• Dropped nuts and bolts are a thing of the past with this magnetic wristband from Magnelex.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2019
• The nuts and bolts of the case are going to be: how were the proposals evaluated?
  — Fortune, 22 Nov. 2019
• The nuts and bolts, finishes, and costs are all discussed in detail.
  — Shawn Vacek, Houston Chronicle, 3 June 2018
• Mueller figures to lean heavily on Marshall and the coaching staff in place to learn the nuts and bolts of the program.
  — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2018
• While all four founders had stories to share about the nuts and bolts of building businesses.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2017
• There’s a specific sequence in which the parts need to be connected, with specific nuts and bolts.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Made up not of James Bond types but rather basic, blue-collar folks like construction workers, plumbers, etc. — gritty teams who get down to the nuts and bolts.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024