How to Use thumbtack in a Sentence

thumbtack

noun

• Flip the paper over, and use a pin or thumbtack to poke a small hole in the foil.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2024
• Just gently press a thumbtack all the way into the wide end of the egg.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2021
• One of the tables was on fire, one was covered in thumbtacks and the last with light bulbs.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2018
• With the help of an adult, push your thumbtack through the sticker or tape at the center of the pinwheel.
  — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
• Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
  — Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• With the help of an adult stick the thumbtack through the mark on each strip until all four strips are attached to the tack.
  — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
• Rotate the pieces and cut them crosswise into a medium dice (about the size of a thumbtack).
  — Chris Ross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Make sure the pinwheel is held securely but can still turn on the thumbtack.
  — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
• A ladder leads up to a crude version of the cockpit, made with plywood, foam, and thumbtacks.
  — Devin Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2017
• To achieve smooth curves, create a compass with a thumbtack, string, and a pencil to guide your design.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2022
• Over the course of the film, Hunter ingests a number of items including a marble, a battery, a thumbtack and dirt.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• Collages securely affixed to the wall with nary a tape mark or thumbtack hole in sight.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 16 May 2019
• Passing, shooting, dribbling and defense are all mapped to both thumbtacks, the left and right triggers, and a few of the face buttons.
  — Brittany Vincent, CNN Underscored, 10 Sep. 2019
• Females grow to more than 6 feet long, while males measure 2.4 centimeters, about the size as a thumbtack.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2022
• Now the mezzanine looks as if it had been moved on a trailer from some other building and attached with thumbtacks.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• Rothman’s Department Store, a bric-a-brac shop that has sold everything from thumbtacks to toasters since 1918, has moved down the block.
  — Julie Satow, New York Times, 18 May 2018
• Push in 4 yellow thumbtacks for eyes; draw pupils with black permanent marker.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 14 Sep. 2017
• For curved lines or circular shapes, create a makeshift compass by placing a thumbtack in the center and using a piece of string pulled taut to guide your pencil.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2021
• Alternatively, simply push a thumbtack through the top edge of the magnetic wall pad for a more secure hold.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2021
• This year, more than ever, is shaping up to be one of talking rats, thumbtack swords, and making entire meals out of feta cheese crumbles, both in and out of gaming.
  — Pearse Anderson, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
• Pitcher Rick Honeycutt hiding a thumbtack in his glove.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• There are five main compartments for all your pens and pencils, but our favorite parts of this caddy are the two smaller compartments that are perfect for paper clips or thumbtacks.
  — Popular Science, 5 Apr. 2020
• Soon, it's joined by other items—a stickpin, a lock, a AA battery, a thumbtack—as Hunter undertakes a daring and increasingly dangerous mission of self-reconstitution.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2020
• Or should the women just bring their bloody sanitary napkins into an emergency room so the hospitals — who are pinned with responsibility in the language of the legislation — can fashion a thumbtack-sized coffin?
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
• What starts with her loudly chewing ice during dinner with her in-laws quickly devolves into her ingesting increasingly physically harmful objects: a marble, a thimble, a paperclip, a thumbtack, a battery, a nail.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• Flip the paper over, and use a pin or thumbtack to poke a small hole in the foil.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2024
• Just gently press a thumbtack all the way into the wide end of the egg.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2021
• One of the tables was on fire, one was covered in thumbtacks and the last with light bulbs.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2018
• With the help of an adult, push your thumbtack through the sticker or tape at the center of the pinwheel.
  — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
• Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
  — Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024