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pin cushion
noun
Alternative form of pincushion
Exact(40)
"The field was like a pin cushion," Thomas said.
"I don't want to be a pin cushion for the state".
It looked like a pin cushion, covered with huge sea urchins, their spines a foot long.
The saddest object is the little lace pin cushion, embroidered with pious mottoes in her own hair by Annie Parker.
Sites like Skill Share and Professor Pin Cushion provide free lessons on how to tailor and work a sewing machine.
The most common complaint was his hot temper an impression reinforced by his strop about not wanting to be used as a "pin cushion" any longer.
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Some resemble mushrooms, others pin cushions.
It is frustrating, he added, because the greens are soft and receptive, like pin cushions.
What appear at first glance to be close-ups of flowers are actually fabric pin cushions.
Victorian custom, and Emerson predilection, called for tabletops and mantels filled with plaster statuettes, bisque candlesticks, conch shells, clocks, thermometers, busts, painted clamshells, pin cushions and oil lamps.
These athletes took so many splinters on the slick Armory indoor surface that they looked like pin cushions after a rough-and-tumble race.
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