TACK in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for TACK, such as:

1. New research is taking a different tack.
2. Well, if it's too long we'll tack it up.
3. If that doesn't work, we'll try a different tack.
4. He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.
5. The secretary tacked a meeting notice on the bulletin board.

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tack
 n.  small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head
Classic Sentence:
1  Well, if it's too long we'll tack it up.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
2  we'll tack it up in one minute, said the resolute Dunyasha taking a needle that was stuck on the front of her little shawl and, still kneeling on the floor, set to work once more.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
3  He rose on the waves, making signs of distress; but no one on board saw him, and the vessel stood on another tack.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
4  It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
6  "I'll arrange it," and she rushed forward so that the maids who were tacking up her skirt could not move fast enough and a piece of gauze was torn off.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
7  However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
8  Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicate to the sayings of Confucius.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  Upon the first proposal made by Candide, however, the Levantine captain had already tacked about, and made the crew ply their oars quicker than a bird cleaves the air.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
10  But the wind was contrary, the sea bad; they tacked and kept offshore.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 49 FATALITY
11  Dantes, though almost sure as to what course the vessel would take, had yet watched it anxiously until it tacked and stood towards him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Example Sentence:
1  He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.
2  If that doesn't work, we'll try a different tack.
3  Hammered a tack into the wall and hung a small picture from it.
4  New research is taking a different tack.
5  I hammered a tack into the wall and hung a small picture from it.
6  The boy could not suppress a snicker when the teacher sat on the tack.
7  Japan's central bank and its main government pension fund said Friday they would pump trillions more yen into the country's sputtering economy, taking a risky new stimulus tack that jolted global markets.
8  They're an extravagance if you choose to ingest them; on average, restaurants are charging about $7 per gram of white truffles, tacking $60 to $125 onto your $20 to $30 risotto.
9  The upholstery is white leather and copper tacks over sustainably-harvested-latex foam.
10  The child-care bill is to be tacked on to the budget plan now being worked out in the Senate.
11  The secretary tacked a meeting notice on the bulletin board.