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
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
Instead of situating its 256-room hotel and 100,000-square-foot hospital side by side, as might be the case on some campuses, Legacy sandwiches the two entities into a single 680-foot high-rise the shape of a stapler.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2020
I’d also like to tell you I invented the stapler and can start fires with my mind.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2018
In his office he constantly altered the position of his coffee mug, his stapler, a jar of pens, he shuffled papers into neater piles.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
