buttonhole
Example Sentences
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Camilla appeared to take a sprig of flowers and put it in her buttonhole, which can be seen in the Christmas card photograph.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2022
They have lunches, meet at conferences, buttonhole departmental women visitors, set up private Facebook pages and Slack channels, and are all over Twitter.
From Scientific American • Mar. 25, 2022
This opens the floor to everyone who has ideas — not just those with the loudest voices or the chutzpah to buttonhole leaders in passing to pitch their ideas.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022
Statuary Hall — usually the loud and unruly gathering place for crowds of journalists who buttonhole lawmakers after the speech for instant reactions — will be empty and silent this year.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2021
With shaking hands, I threaded the needle and figured out how to stab it through the buttonhole, but it came right out the other side.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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