bobby pin
Example Sentences
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She didn’t expect anyone to follow along, but suddenly, a video chronicling her first two trades – the bobby pin for a pair of pink earrings for three margarita glasses – started gaining traction.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
In this game, I would bobby pin one of my grandmother’s yellow towels over my own hair.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
But there are threats that we haven’t evolved to perceive, and need to learn about, which is why your kid won’t eat broccoli but will happily toddle toward an electrical outlet, bobby pin in hand.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
If surgeons move the electrode by as little as the width of a bobby pin, they hold Frankensteinian power to play with a person’s emotions.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 14, 2018
She pulled a bobby pin from her hair and began to pick her teeth.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
