thumbtack

Example Sentences

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Broadcaster TVE showed a thumbtack that its reporter on a motorbike found on the course.

From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2023

Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023

In 2017, BuzzFeed News reported a long list of stomach-churning discoveries: A woman unearthed a thumbtack in her Cheerios, and a man bit down on a bone from his box of Frosted Mini-Wheats.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2021

We motored over to Aaron Island, a small thumbtack of wilderness surrounded by water.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2019

A few grains of the powder fell onto the bridge of her nose as she used the thumbtack to stamp a dot above her eyebrows.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri