How to Use pushpin in a Sentence

pushpin

noun

• Use a pushpin to poke a hole through the top of each tube, on the back side.
  — Jonathan Adolph, Popular Science, 24 Nov. 2020
• The stuff of her days is Post-It Notes and paper clips, Bic pens and pushpins.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Cut loops on other end, and use a pushpin to attach to the cake.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 29 Mar. 2021
• Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
  — Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Insert a black pushpin for the eye; adhere twigs with hot-glue for the feet.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• The beach was a pushpin on a map and its capture would arguably lead to Britain’s fall.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• The location of the fractal drainages pictured in the image at the top of this post is marked here with the red pushpin.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2013
• Once the syringe is attached to the adapter (the adapter already being stuck airtight to the glass), the pushpin is removed.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2018
• Make a small desk seem bigger with the addition of cork or pushpin boards.
  — Grace Gallagher, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
• Using a pushpin and one of the cardboard finger tubes as a guide, make four evenly spaced holes across the unopened end of the box.
  — Jonathan Adolph, Popular Science, 24 Nov. 2020
• Procedure Push at least four pushpins into the body of the bottle, about one inch from its bottom.
  — Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
• The maps are adorned with brightly colored stings, pushpins and Farris’ neat handwriting.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
• On social media, these institutions sometimes use a red pushpin emoji with the name of the tribe whose homeland the college sits on.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• Soni bought a corkboard map of the United States for charting workers’ journeys, and devoted a red pushpin to Gonzalez.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Each object in the display was marked by a numbered pushpin that referred back to a list of descriptions, written by the people who had sent the objects in, about where something had been found or why it had been sent.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• There’s also four compartments for small office supplies like pushpins, rubber bands, mini binder clips and paper clips.
  — Anna Goldfarb, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• The map is full of yellow pushpins denoting sales to nearly 70 countries, including China, Nigeria, and Trinidad and Tobago.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2017
• Use black pushpins or silver straight pins (color heads with black permanent marker) to attach zipper, shaping mouth opening.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
• Another shows Pinterest’s signature pushpin—made more lovable, naturally, with the addition of a smiley face.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024