stapler

Example Sentences

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Elsewhere in the warehouse, an authenticator uses a device smaller than a stapler to scan a Louis Vuitton tote to help determine whether the leather, stitching and branding are authentic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

I watched for a while as “Elvis” star Austin Butler drifted with slow, inexorable determination toward Cruise, who finally pulled the younger man toward him by clamping a hand on his shoulder like a stapler.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023

Akbar and Shelley hear this separately and see the error in their ways, mending their children's relationship with all the delicacy of closing an open heart surgery incision with an industrial stapler.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

Or they’ll explain that they couldn’t find the box of printer paper they bought last month, or their hammer or stapler, so they bought another one.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

I make him go to the car first, and then I buy him an ergonomic stapler because I think he should have one.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King