Sentence examples for long pins from inspiring English sources
Women also wore the turban and the so-called butterfly headdress of transparent gauze raised above the head by means of long pins.
Malice and superstition were also expressed in the formation of wax images of hated persons, into the bodies of which long pins were thrust in the hope that deadly injury would be induced in the person represented.
Many of the early European crowns were made in sections hinged together by long pins, which enabled them to be taken apart for transport or storage and, when worn, to adapt themselves to the shape and size of the wearer's head.
Mr. Hundley, who was born in 1975 and lives in Los Angeles, makes a fantastically entertaining thing of it, with dense, mossy patterns of words and images pasted on a solid ground, and more images, tiny ones, projected from the surface on long pins.
It offers an online, attractive and visualized interface to conference calling, while simultaneously addressing a ton of everyday pain points, like not knowing who's present, who's talking, and who's making all that noise?! It's even getting rid of the tedious login process, which typically involves the use of long PINs.
With UberConference, the company introduced an alternative to the huge pain the ass that is audio conferencing today, by offering an attractive, visualized interface for calls that also addresses everyday conference call annoyances like background noise, not knowing who's present and who's doing the talking, and even the tedious "login" process involving the entry of long PINs.
Disbelievers long pinned them with the offensive label "witch doctors".
"There are lots of earthy colours, prints and long pin-tucked bodices", says Rosemary Harden, principal curator at the museum.
Environmental campaigners have long pinned the blame for the possum's steady decline on state-subsidised logging of its habitat.
Hina reached up with her left hand and pulled out the long pin that kept her headscarf fastened.
Add in his prodigious goalkicking off either foot and his ability to fling out long pin-point passes and you had a modern-day Wilson of the Wizard.
