pushpin

Example Sentences

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If you can't get glasses, two pieces of paper and a pushpin might do the trick.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Microbes are supposed to be microscopic, but this one, tentatively dubbed Thiomargarita magnifica, can be 5000 times bigger than many bacterial cells—as long as a pushpin.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2022

Should one poke a hole in the rounder end of the egg with a pushpin?

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2017

I never know when a collar’s gonna fall off, or a pushpin gonna stick me and make me holler out in class.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake