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How to use gimlet in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gimlet? Here are some examples.

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His aides speak in hushed tones about his ferocious mind, acute attention to detail and a gimlet eye for a deal.
At a later date, a special steel gimlet was sometimes provided to penetrate the more modern tin cap in situ.
His narrow, gimlet gaze, on the other hand, betokens a man of limited mind and sympathies.
We sat at the bar, and the guy behind it knew April by name, and gave her the usual, a vodka gimlet.
What the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance.
However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change.
If not, the disk is wiped and sent back to work, but a gimlet eye is kept on it by tracking databases.
Gruff but with a twinkle in his gimlet eyes, it was there that he received Bello.
The film, which cast a gimlet eye on racial prejudices in the South, won five Academy Awards, including best picture.
After insertion to the shoulder, the gimlet would be unscrewed a few turns to allow the liquid to flow out, then screwed back into the barrel to stop the flow.
It is composed of a threaded gimlet five meshs, a lever bottle opener and a small microphone-toothed curved blade.
Murdoch was known to personally track all of the editorial budgets with a gimlet eye.
There are reasons, in other words, for hard-shell conservatives to give him the gimlet eye.
The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.
Now known as Phil McNeale, every game would see him, lightmeter in hand, prowling the boundary, gimlet eyes focused firmly on the umpires.
The drier types, sometimes called London dry, may be served unmixed or may be combined with other ingredients to make such cocktails as the martini and gimlet and such long drinks as the Tom Collins and the gin and tonic.
An anecdote read in a work, quotes Kurt Tank who, in top of a loop, throttle retarded during a trial flight, east left in gimlet following an inopportune and brutal release the compressor to 2600 meters altitude.
Shout up a Tom Collins or a Gin Gimlet, listen to chilled-out unpretentious tunes filtered through hidden house speakers, and imagine you are in your own living room.
Gimlet of eye and spide of moustache, even his own father disliked him.
Examples from Classical Literature
With a gimlet I bored a hole in the floor, through which I passed a piece of string.
He could have moved it now for nothing short of a gimlet or a red-hot wire.
He was no doubt the head doctor, for his glance was as sharp and piercing as a gimlet.
Then he quietly drew a gimlet from his pocket and bored a hole in the door.
Mrs. Pettigrew cocked her head on one293 side and turned a gimlet eye upon him.
Rebecca knew that they were doing no harm, but that did not prevent her hoping to escape the gimlet eye of Mr. Came.
I was fetehin' some oats to gimlet eye, an' didn't take any particular notice.
Hence I pulled away from land, with the heavy boat towing the light one, and even Sandy Macraw unable to lay his gimlet eye on me.
She replied to his tyrannic voice with one as hard and stabbing as a gimlet.
With a tape line, gimlet, and plumb-bob, a mechanic is fully equipped with tools to get his measurements.
Ay, cried Wewitzer, I now understand what they call a gimlet eye.
A soldier said he would get a gimlet and bore a hole into the arminian.
Bill fastened a gimlet eye upon his brother-in-law and drew a deep breath.
What folly to be hankering after our neighbor's chalk line and gimlet!
And there was Raffles securing the landing door with wedge and gimlet, the very second after softly closing it behind us.
She's got eyes like gimlet holes, and her hair's the color of tow.
O'Moy trembled, and his glance avoided the other's gimlet eye.
In the rainy day he builds a work-bench, or gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber, and stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel.
Others have been drawn out, not without trouble, from the bottoms of ships, which they had pierced through and through, as a gimlet pierces a barrel.
I got quite cross with them after a bit, and told them what I thought of them, and then they gave the gimlet such an excruciating wrench that I woke up.
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