safety pin
Example Sentences
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Adding insult to injury, to settle a debt, Hunt sold the 1849 patent rights for something that could have kept his legacy alive: the modern-day safety pin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The costume department must have used every safety pin in town.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
The clothing items found with her remains included a dark-green sweater with a white safety pin attached to the front, dark-green trousers and a long-sleeved pink sweater.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023
But when he continued, she realised that it was deliberate - and the safety pin she had used to keep her scarf in place "saved the day".
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2023
I affixed the black plastic cutlass to the side of my white vendor’s smock with a safety pin.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
