stapler
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere in the warehouse, an authenticator uses a device smaller than a stapler to scan a Louis Vuitton tote to help determine whether the leather, stitching and branding are authentic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Gabriel Trujillo, just 8 or 9 years old, wrote that he would be a stapler.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
I watched for a while as “Elvis” star Austin Butler drifted with slow, inexorable determination toward Cruise, who finally pulled the younger man toward him by clamping a hand on his shoulder like a stapler.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
He sat down at the table with his tools — a pen, a stapler, some slips of paper — and put on his reading glasses.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
In his office he constantly altered the position of his coffee mug, his stapler, a jar of pens, he shuffled papers into neater piles.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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