bobby pin
Example Sentences
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Once those are done, she will find someone to trade the house for a bobby pin and try her luck a second time.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2021
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
Once handcuffed in a bathtub, he extracts a bobby pin from the tub’s drain using his tongue to free himself.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 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
Her hair falls past her shoulders in loose waves, not a bobby pin in sight.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
