How to Use nuts and bolts in a Sentence

nuts and bolts

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  • 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
  • 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
  • In search of any spare parts, the siblings even found original nuts and bolts in coffee cans.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Seeking to explain the nuts and bolts of that five-year absence from the NCAA tournament?
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Everybody else is just nuts and bolts like 5:00 on Thursday.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
  • And there's a lot of details that are still yet to be determined about exactly how that's going to be done, but that's the basic nuts and bolts of it.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024

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