buttonhole

Example Sentences

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They relied on Griffin, who utilized her thick Rolodexes and neighborhood connections to buttonhole politicians, community members and others to fight.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

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

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