stickpin

Example Sentences

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My first professionally published work appeared in Ms., and I still have a stickpin with the magazine’s logo — remember stickpins and how popular they were in the ’80s?

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2020

He wore a well-tailored midnight-blue suit—even in the sixties he wore suits—and a stickpin through his collar.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

You could have heard a diamond stickpin drop.

From Forbes • Oct. 8, 2013

Her father — "a sharp, beautiful dude with a diamond stickpin" — would have none of that.

From Time • May 10, 2010

Max had gone west to seek his fortune, and upon her blouse collar, Mrs. Brenner bore proof of his success—a tiny nugget of raw gold fashioned into a stickpin.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros