pinned
Example Sentences
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On her official X feed, Gov. Mikie Sherrill has pinned a post that reads: “I am going to keep working for better conditions inside Delaney Hall until it is closed for good.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Mainly nipping the ball up the Lord's slope, Smith took the edge of Gay, then pinned Root lbw for eight.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Based on those, she had thought that she had been abandoned in the street, her brother swaddled on her back with their names and ages pinned to their clothes.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
This is not a tale where the heroine’s acceptable aesthetics are revealed by her removing her glasses or allowing her tousled waves to tumble out of a tightly pinned hairdo.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
Her hair pinned in place and wearing a dark, beaded dress, she looked right at home among the crowd in the party—no, in the movie, in the memory....
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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