Sentence examples for pushpin from inspiring English sources

Likewise, if he picked X over Y, a colonoscopy over an enema, pushpin over poetry, his choice should be respected.

As the writers decided what would happen to each character in a given episode, Collins would write a brief description of that plot point, or "beat," on a colored index card and pushpin it to the appropriate box on the grid.

Founded in 1956, the company makes millions of high-end plastic parts each year: containers for cosmetics, caps, pushpin heads, bottle tops.

Propped against the walls were pushpin boards to which dozens of appliqué animals, insects, and birds had been affixed.

Each surviving detail was a pushpin holding the past to its easel.

As for the pachyderm product, it is one smallish, attached lump, capped with what appears to be black-and-white beadwork (in reality pushpin heads) in a design of concentric circles.

Motioning at a scattering of pushpins some distance from the rest, he said, "They were the youngest, smallest children.

Last year, Hewlett-Packard began a project it grandly calls "Central Nervous System for the Earth," a 10-year initiative to embed up to a trillion pushpin-size sensors around the globe.

They're even dotted with pushpin-size holes, as if somebody had taken down the Man With a Van fliers just before unlocking the doors at 5 p.m.

(Subsets include the professional Big Board, the romantically specific Stalker Shrine, and the yarn-and-pushpin String Theory).

Sze, Scott writes, "joins things manufactured to help build other things (ladders, levels, winches, extension cords) with hundreds of commonplace items (Q-tips, pushpins, birthday candles, aspirin tablets), creating elaborate compositions that extend from gallery walls, creep into corners, and surge toward ceilings".