thumbtack
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“Honey! Did you see the picture of Angie’s labradoodle?” she might ask as I walked into her small white room to thumbtack another family photo to the otherwise bare walls.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
We motored over to Aaron Island, a small thumbtack of wilderness surrounded by water.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2019
You might even wish to write down what you feel, laminate it and thumbtack it to a free-standing bulletin board for all to see.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2018
There are nails and thumbtack holes all over the walls where pictures and posters have been removed.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
They’ve come to this cesspool to find the villainous Krem, an unrecognizably vile Matthias Schoenaerts with a mug that’s been pierced all over like he face-planted into a pile of thumbtacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
This summer’s Tour de France was also troubled by thumbtacks tossed on the road.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
It’s as visually pulse-pounding as thumbtacks on a driveway, and an invitation to close one’s eyes and concentrate on the A.S.M.R. pleasure of shuddering steel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
While we are on ravioli, even if they are stuffed with thumbtacks and rusty pennies, they are better than spaghetti.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023
Pinned with thumbtacks in a circle, all those stormy treehouse drawings surrounding one strong, smiling girl.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
