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Definition of "bolting" []

  • Present participle of bolt. (verb)
  • A sifting, as of flour or meal. (noun)
  • A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. (noun)

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Use "bolting" in a sentence
  • ""The hope is that if this agreement is done really, really well, that it will then have bolt-on possibilities as what I call "bolting on additional countries" at a later time with a relatively short negotiation being needed because of the quality of the agreement that is presented to them," he said."
  • "The film also strongly insinuates that the public education system is utterly broken and the solutions are found in bolting the system to privately run, publicly funded, non-unionized charter schools."
  • "After bolting from a highway cop to give the two bored drivers something exciting to do in a lonely, desolate stretch of America, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) calmly whips his obscenely red convertible into a standstill to allow the custodian of justice ownership of the moment."