Sentence examples for work a buttonhole from inspiring English sources

Work a buttonhole at the point.

A button should have a buttonhole, and should work.

Some sewing machines have a " buttonhole " setting or pedal that will work well for this purpose.

Later he compiled a magnificent series of pictures of New Yorkers on the subway, surreptitiously snapped with a hidden camera through a buttonhole in his coat.In 1943 Evans went to work for Henry Luce, an arch-Republican who loved to bring radicals into his publishing empire.

There's a buttonhole for attaching the napkin to a shirt, but they also work perfectly well tucked into a neckline, however plunging.

Until his fall Friday, he reported to work daily, often for 12 hours or more, typically wearing overalls and a flannel shirt, his wristwatch looped through a buttonhole.

Except perhaps with: "I lost a buttonhole".

"Look at this," he said, pausing to watch as a worker bent over a buttonhole.

Pick a buttonhole and you could find yourself in the dock.

This competent woman, who effortlessly pulled my daughter out through an incision barely bigger than a buttonhole, will reassure me.

The painter notices the worn check of the fabric, the tattered hem, even the light peeping through a buttonhole.