Sentence examples for safety pinned from inspiring English sources

The celebration of sluts – in the sense of those slightly impatient of conventions of feminine daintiness – was dedicated to "all those who have ever changed their stockings in a taxi, brushed their hair with someone else's nailbrush or safety pinned a hem" and particularly to anyone who had "taken anything back out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing".

A superstitious athlete may feel quite lucky if they were the one to get the number 2012 safety pinned to their lycra.

And nobody, and I mean nobody, could tell you that that plastic lanyard friendship bracelet made safety pinned to a sock while sitting cross-legged on the bed wouldn't last forever and ever and ever.

Here we were, learning about anatomy in my front yard at midnight beneath a nearly full moon, Carly with a towel safety pinned around her neck, me pushing my boundaries pretty hard.

"When I think of Lil Peep, I think of a big broken heart that has been delicately patched, sewn, stapled, safety pinned and stuffed all back together, which he wasn't afraid to wear on his sleeve," Instagram "it girl" Josephine Pearl Lee told HypeBeast.

I try to have a little embellishment to signify my Indigeneity; like my favourite T-shirt bringing about awareness for Truth and Reconciliation, a small square piece hide (moose hide campaign) safety pinned to my jacket for Indigenous women, oh, and I can't forget my decorated rearview mirror.

Careful when you safety pin your jeans!

He had slicked-back hair and a blanket safety-pinned around his considerable waist.

Suitor wore a blue jersey with a blue sign safety-pinned to his chest that featured three letters: NFL.

Shot, like the Nazi photos, for the purpose of record-keeping, they show a mother cradling a baby; two men, blindfolded and shackled, holding hands; a boy, quietly standing, with his prison number safety-pinned into his bare chest, like a modern St. Sebastian.

Sitting simultaneously on the catwalk and in red-tops, bodycon has given us some memorable celebrity imagery: Liz Hurley safety-pinned into Versace at a film premiere; Eva Herzigova vacuum-packed into a lilac dress on the 1993 Hervé Léger catwalk; Victoria Beckham for the best part of the 2000s.