Fasten firmly

Usage examples of rivet.

The crowd sat riveted, watching as the Baptist drew near the east bank of the river.

The climber was methodical, working multi-pitch, shooting out spindles of wire ahead that buried and fused into the rock, testing the weight of the anchors, squatting to plant rivets beneath us, roping hexes into the cracks, taking the slack, testing, belaying, moving on.

Once engaged, she was riveted by the compelling, beseeching, anguished intensity of his demand for an answer to his question.

Fremont, I had just begun doing some riveting research into ancient Greek Orthodox ecclesiology at the library.

Wolfric moved his way to the front where Emich and his captains were gathered, and having said something, Emich turned a riveting stare upon Tancred.

I had been riveted to the ground at the sight of the nailed rabbit, so I was equally riveted now, for Fitty was looking at something in his hand.

If the night had been fogless, he would have been able to count the rivets in the metal door of the embalmery-crematorium.

A metallic, slithering rasp roared through the underground halls, the sound of a thousand habergeons of chain mail being dragged rapidly across riveted sheet iron.

On her right, she saw a forest of blue beamsthe big industrial jigs that held the fuselage barrels in place, while they were riveted together.

Theos at once joined him, and the two friends, holding each other fast by the arm, gazed down on the silent, mighty multitude around them,--a huge concourse of the citizens of Al-Kyris, who, strange as this part of their behavior seemed, still paid no heed to the presence of their Laureate, but with pale, rapt faces and anxious, frightened eyes, riveted their attention entirely on the sombre, blackgarmented Prophet whose thin ghostly arms, outstretched above them, appeared to mutely invoke in their behalf some special miracle of mercy.

In the noise and tumult of battle, with the full attention of the Zarian warriors riveted on their foes, the Barbary Pirates, none but Murg noticed this burst of action.

Daphne and Nyala were only fifteen feet away, but they were both staring at Quinn and seemed riveted in place.

Dorrin lifts the ball peen hammer and with four quick offset strokes finishes the top of the first rivet holding the iron of the wagon tongue in place.

They were riveting, making her wonder for a moment why she was there, until she caught sight of Rickey again.

From it hung a long, heavy knifethe only metal tool he appeared to ownin a flapped and riveted sheath.