buttonhole

"I would say that the buttonhole needling technique destroyed her life, certainly destroyed her health," says Dr Macanovic.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024

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

In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when the milk was about to boil.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

This he tailored into surprisingly well-fitting shirts and pants, complete with pockets, belt loops, and properly sewn buttonholes.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2022

They were suddenly having difficulty getting the buttons of his shirt through the buttonholes.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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

So she buttonholed Rubinstien while he was out walking his dog, a pit bull mix named Chubbs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Only one character in “Sign” identifies as Black, which surprised white critics who had buttonholed Hansberry as a writer devoted to Black characters.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

He buttonholed a priest who was coming back with one of the returning streams of pilgrims.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

When Dr Macanovic examined the records of 15 patients using the buttonholing technique at the QA, she found infection rates four times higher than they experienced using the standard technique.

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 John Hartman Morgan