Thesaurus / buttonholing
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synonyms for buttonholing
- annoy
- buttonhole
- confront
- address
- bother
- brace
- call
- challenge
- cross
- dare
- entice
- face
- flag
- greet
- hail
- proposition
- salute
- welcome
- run into
- whistle for
- apprehend
- confine
- delay
- jail
- bust
- buttonhole
- check
- constrain
- decelerate
- hinder
- ice
- impede
- inhibit
- intern
- mire
- nab
- pinch
- reserve
- restrain
- retard
- withhold
- bog down
- hang up
- hold up
- pick up
- pull in
- put away
- run-in
- send up
- set back
- slow down
- slow up
- accost
- buttonhole
- address
- apostrophize
- declaim
- exhort
- orate
- perorate
- rant
- rave
- soapbox
- spiel
- spout
- stump
- chew out
- get on a soapbox
- go on about
- hold forth
- talk to
- yell at
- free
- liberate
- advance
- aid
- allow
- assist
- facilitate
- forward
- give
- help
- let go
- offer
- permit
- push
- release
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How to use buttonholing in a sentence
Loops are made by buttonholing very closely over several foundation threads, making the purl on the outside edge.
TEXTILES AND CLOTHINGKATE HEINTZ WATSONLook closely into the wool-worked buttonholing at your blanket ends.
NEEDLEWORK ECONOMIESVARIOUSThe ring with which to lift the lid is made by wrapping raffia three or four times over the finger, and then buttonholing it over.
CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR RURAL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSVIRGINIA MCGAWBetween two rows of buttonholing (dark on sampler) a single row of Oriental-stitch is worked.
ART IN NEEDLEWORKLEWIS F. DAYThe feathery stem (A) on the sampler is simply a buttonholing worked alternately from right to left and left to right.
ART IN NEEDLEWORKLEWIS F. DAYThe band at K is merely surface buttonholing over a series of slanting stitches.
ART IN NEEDLEWORKLEWIS F. DAYSir George in a corner is buttonholing Frederic and saddening him with last accounts of the Scapegrace.
APRIL'S LADYMARGARET WOLFE HUNGERFORDThe capsule of Tenon is opened below the external rectus by grasping it with forceps and buttonholing it with the scissors.
A SYSTEM OF OPERATIVE SURGERY, VOLUME IV (OF 4)VARIOUSAt the same time it is important to avoid buttonholing the septum by cutting into the opposite nostril.
A SYSTEM OF OPERATIVE SURGERY, VOLUME IV (OF 4)VARIOUSI have never had the courage to solve my uncertainties by buttonholing a Frenchman and asking him what is the truth of the matter.
LEAVES FROM A FIELD NOTE-BOOKJ. H. MORGAN