paper clip
Example Sentences
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The crows brought him silver buttons and paper clips, and coins which he dug holes in and strung onto a shoelace and wore round his neck.
From Literature
“What is all that? It looks like paper clips!”
From Literature
My college applications—each in its bulky envelope, larded with paper clips, staples and whiteout—had to be postmarked by noon.
Even Woo has a paper clip pinning his tiny nostrils together.
From Literature
So he found a workaround: a paper clip.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
