Sentence examples for butterfly pin from inspiring English sources

Now she had a butterfly pin clipped to her lapel.

Beneath her floral headscarf, primly fastened at the chin with a butterfly pin, her face was mournful, the face of an old woman.

STROLLING through the galleries on the SeaFair's Grand Luxe, a lavish new yacht selling fine art, antiques and jewelry, Deborah and Chuck Royce looked at paintings by Marc Chagall and Fernando Botero and were "seriously distracted," Ms. Royce said, by a glittery butterfly pin of colored gemstones.

She opens a black box, and like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, presents a pearl necklace punctuated with a retro white butterfly pin.

Use stamps such as the Recycling stamp or the butterfly pin.

Like a butterfly pinned to cotton, the accused becomes a specimen.

I hate to feel like a butterfly pinned to a board".

Explorers have also helped children at the museum make butterfly pins and Kwanzaa cards.

Hsing, who made it the farthest among her teammates in the singles tournament, is a five-foot five-inch, hundred-and-ten-pound San Jose teen who wears colorful butterfly pins in her hair.

With the grin of a mom who's seen it all (and put up with it), she watched her daughter run around with a butterfly pinned to her head and a million conversations going at once.

And it almost goes without saying that a reason for all this interest is that these gorgeous and petted and idealized creatures are passive — their beauty that of a butterfly pinned to a collector's tray.