How To Use Thumbtack In A Sentence
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You know the plastic bit on thumbtacks which aren't really thumbtacks?
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Hardcore is known for things like rolling around on piles of thumbtacks or hitting opponents with flaming 2x4s.
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Attach the center dial to the calculator with a brad or thumbtack.
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She noticed a tiny hole near the top, the perforation a pushpin or thumbtack would make?
A Stitch Before Dying
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He thumbtacked the picture of landscape to the wall.
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Lighter objects can be hung with decorative pins or thumbtacks.
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The thumbtacked pictures of the systems of far, cold Jupiter and Saturn -- Saturn still unapproached, except by small, instrumented rockets -- would be the things to appeal to him.
The Planet Strappers
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I press the thumbtack into the board with thumb.
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The North American media are if possible overplaying the soap operatic performances of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, as they strew thumbtacks along the road to Baghdad.
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Migration maps were thumbtacked to her apartment walls; encyclopedic census reports barricaded her bed.
Strangers at the Feast
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Why are teenagers holding wrestling matches in which thumbtacks, chairs, and tables play such important roles?
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Katy awoke to orchids and plumeria, a handmade lei, and a thumbtacked Hawaiian panorama.
Spider Bones
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Posters of Bruce Lee, Barb Wire, John Elway, the Watchmen, and Carmelo Anthony were thumbtacked to the shabby plaster wall.
Masked
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Photocopies of this portrait are plastered on every bus shelter and lamppost and thumbtacked on every post office and public school bulletin board.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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I press the thumbtack into the board with thumb.
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Katy awoke to orchids and plumeria, a handmade lei, and a thumbtacked Hawaiian panorama.
Spider Bones
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These include paper clips, thumbtacks, staples, pens, and Post-it Notes.
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I would often thumbtack the covers to my bedroom wall, leaving the album itself in its paper sleeve.
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I press the thumbtack into the board with thumb.
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The moon was like a white thumbtack, pinning up the sheet of night.
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Above them, to my left, hung four pages that had been clipped out of newspapers and thumbtacked to the wall.
The Hanging Tree
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I press the thumbtack into the board with thumb.
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In one corner of my cubicle, I've thumbtacked a battered old AOL floppy disk.
Lessons from AOL as it turns 25
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Indoors, you may need some tape or thumbtacks to fasten your background to a wall.
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Imagine an HDTV you take home under your arm in a cardboard shipping tube and attach to your wall with thumbtacks or carpet tape.
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The narrow hallway walls were covered with newspaper clippings and photographs, all stuck on with thumbtacks and masking tape.
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Indoors, you may need some tape or thumbtacks to fasten your background to a wall.
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There were a lot of maps scattered all over the floor, yet some were hanging on the walls with thumbtacks pinned on various strategic locations.
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Sketches were thumbtacked to the walls; partially finished paintings stood on half a dozen easels.
Rot & Ruin
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Dad kept the recipe thumbtacked inside the cabinet where the Calumet baking powder and the Morton salt were kept.
Grandpa's special pancakes | Homesick Texan
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I need some thumbtacks to put up some stuff in my new room to make it all homey.
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All companies, no matter the industry, have to buy routine goods to function - pens, copier toner, thumbtacks.
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One day, they'll learn about the magic of sandpaper and thumbtacks hidden inside the pitcher's glove.
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Too late - at this speed, it's approximately as effective as scattering thumbtacks in front of advancing armour.
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They couldn't even hang flyers up by themselves until she demonstrated the method that used the fewest thumbtacks.
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Digging around in the box, she pulled out her new corkboard and a pack of brass thumbtacks.
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Two thumbtack-size patches of neurons located on the brain stem are particularly loaded with adenosine receptors.
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He thumbtacked the picture of landscape to the wall.
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Do you dare risk losing the edges of your Lucian Freud poster to a malignant thumbtack?
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He added a thumbtack to Saint Michaels and placed one in the lower left-hand corner, about where Spartina, Virginia, would be.
THE LAST PLACE
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Gold hoop in her navel; her ears, studded with beads and gold balls, looked like the corner of the reminder board where you stick the extra thumbtacks.
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However, you can turn it into a more traditional screen by attaching panels of cloth to the back of the frames with a few thumbtacks or staples.
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The teacher thumbtacked the notice on the bulletin board
