buttonhole

Example Sentences

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"I would say that the buttonhole needling technique destroyed her life, certainly destroyed her health," says Dr Macanovic.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2024

They have lunches, meet at conferences, buttonhole departmental women visitors, set up private Facebook pages and Slack channels, and are all over Twitter.

From Scientific American • Mar. 25, 2022

This opens the floor to everyone who has ideas — not just those with the loudest voices or the chutzpah to buttonhole leaders in passing to pitch their ideas.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

And he added a personal touch to the museum: Among its collection was a coat with a buttonhole camera that he had worn while working under cover in Greece and Cyprus.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2022

In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when the milk was about to boil.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez