thumbtack

Example Sentences

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First, punch a small hole in the middle of one of the cards using a thumbtack or a pin.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2024

The methyl group acts like a tiny thumbtack set out on the seat the antibiotic was hoping to take, Polikanov said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Broadcaster TVE showed a thumbtack that its reporter on a motorbike found on the course.

From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2023

In 2017, BuzzFeed News reported a long list of stomach-churning discoveries: A woman unearthed a thumbtack in her Cheerios, and a man bit down on a bone from his box of Frosted Mini-Wheats.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2021

Lexie scanned the living room: only a few throw pillows stacked on the carpet, bare walls now except for some stray thumbtack holes in the plaster.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng