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
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
He gives somebody a stapler and he says, "Oh, I'm going to be president one day. Hold on to that."
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2021
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
Even the scar on his lip, from when he’d tried to eat a stapler as a toddler, stung like a fresh wound.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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