repining

Example Sentences

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Letting out the spring can be accomplished by unpinning and repinning the spring at collet with less of the coil entered in the pinhole.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.

She was always pushing it up and repinning it into place, as if it were too heavy for her small head.

From The Happiest Time of Their Lives by Miller, Alice Duer

He will give no more trouble to-night; and the victor turns to the Lady Grizel, who had been repinning the silk scarf across her breast, while the issue of the combat was still in doubt.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

The Curé rose and began repinning his clerical garments.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison