zipper
Example Sentences
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I mess with the zipper on the throw pillow I’m leaning against.
From Literature
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She put the photo back in her pencil case, and then gripped the zipper with her thumb and first finger and pulled.
From Literature
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A minute later, another photo came in, this one of a solid cream sweater with a zipper at the collar, light blue jeans, and brown shoes.
From Literature
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As the tectonic plates shifted, the crust in this region was pulled apart and fractured, opening progressively from east to west, much like a zipper being undone.
From Science Daily
“I see three toppled cars and a big gap down the middle of the street, like somebody opened a giant zipper.”
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.