buttonhole
Example Sentences
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For days as the historic floor fight played out, Mr. McCarthy had remained in his seat and dispatched allies to buttonhole the remaining holdouts privately.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023
Camilla appeared to take a sprig of flowers and put it in her buttonhole, which can be seen in the Christmas card photograph.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2022
They have lunches, meet at conferences, buttonhole departmental women visitors, set up private Facebook pages and Slack channels, and are all over Twitter.
From Scientific American • Mar. 25, 2022
This opens the floor to everyone who has ideas — not just those with the loudest voices or the chutzpah to buttonhole leaders in passing to pitch their ideas.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022
When the light beam struck, the eye facing Palmer went from buttonhole slit to orange button; otherwise the bird did not move.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
