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

And he added a personal touch to the museum: Among its collection was a coat with a buttonhole camera that he had worn while working under cover in Greece and Cyprus.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2022

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