bobby pin
Example Sentences
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She secured the $80,000 two-bedroom house after 18 months of trades that started with a lone bobby pin.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2021
But there are threats that we haven’t evolved to perceive, and need to learn about, which is why your kid won’t eat broccoli but will happily toddle toward an electrical outlet, bobby pin in hand.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020
Once handcuffed in a bathtub, he extracts a bobby pin from the tub’s drain using his tongue to free himself.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2020
If surgeons move the electrode by as little as the width of a bobby pin, they hold Frankensteinian power to play with a person’s emotions.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 14, 2018
“A lot of the girls aren’t into protesting or anything, but they’re all going to hate the metal detectors once they’re in. Every bobby pin they wear is going to set it off, right?”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
