buttonhole

One I do buttonhole, Robert, a 14-year-old who's just been for a swim, says he loves his fatbike for the freedom it gives him but he has "kept it legal" and doesn't do "stupid" stuff.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

There was a rose in his buttonhole, and the tip of his handkerchief, folded into a triangle, peeped out of his breast pocket.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

And his simple Quaker-like garb, which contrasts with Houdon’s use of classical references in other portraits, is rendered meticulously, down to the threads of the unused buttonholes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The golf stories are narrated by the “oldest member” of an upper-class golf club who buttonholes unwary younger members to regale them with his memories of golfers he has known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

Even in interviews, Arnhold educates, buttonholes, lobbies for her cause — graciously but inexorably.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

David Whelan said his brother must work at least eight hours a day, six days a week, on menial tasks like making buttonholes, which has caused him repetitive strain injury.

From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2022

We made sweat lodges out of broken branches dug back into the earth, covered over with our shirts tied together at the buttonholes.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Tegmark buttonholed Elon Musk at a 2014 MIT conference on space, after one of his students asked a question that prompted the billionaire’s now-famous quip that, with AI, “we are summoning the demon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

At a moment of vulnerability, Harper is buttonholed by an old classmate named Sue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

At the lighting ceremony, a non-Jewish man buttonholed the rabbi to thank him for procuring badly needed heart medicine for him during a spate of intense bombardment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

These are some of the issues the kids wrote on posters at the forum and buttonholed the candidates on at the reception.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022

The next day, a shaken Oppie buttonholed Kamen at the lab and revealed that he had just reported the unionization meeting to Ernest, who “blew a gasket.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But Mrs Kelsey's medical records, which BBC News has seen, show she suffered a great deal after she started buttonholing.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024

A young William Boeing showed up day after day, buttonholing every pilot he could for a skyride.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

But even after Mr. Biden and members of his cabinet worked the phones and Ms. Pelosi and her team spent much of Thursday buttonholing lawmakers on the House floor, the votes proved elusive.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

Netanyahu continued the efforts until the last moment, according to reports from the chamber, buttonholing individual members overnight as the voting continued on more than 700 individual provisions.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

I have never had the courage to solve my uncertainties by buttonholing a Frenchman and asking him what is the truth of the matter.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman