Sentence examples for drawing pin from inspiring English sources

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drawing pin

noun

A tack for attaching paper to a drawing board etc

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Keep 1 strip over the other and fix drawing pin in 1 one corner.

I've always said it would be like sticking a drawing pin in an elephant's bottom.

I could stare at his Biro, if I'd rather, or gaze at a drawing pin on the wall until my eyelids surrender.

The miniature spike of a kitten heel ended in a flat disc, so that it looked like a shoe balanced on an upside-down drawing pin.

At one point Souness gave a passable impersonation of the inflatable headmaster, berating an inflatable Carlos Tevez for bringing a drawing pin into an inflatable classroom.

What do a blind salamander that can go without food for a decade, a frog so small that it fits on a drawing pin and another that lives only in the human burial grounds have in common?

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They were just tacked to the walls with drawing pins.

Things are tacked up ruthlessly with drawing pins, as if they were worthless notations.

Stationery Hillier's new jewellery collection has drawing pins as earrings.

You imagine yourself being a better person and these things coalesce around paper clips and drawing pins".

Nor is Feldmann's idea of glueing drawing pins to the insoles of a pair of golden high heels up there with Meret Oppenheim's furry teacup.

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