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How to use hatpin in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hatpin? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
She fastens it there with a strong hair elastic, and uses a hatpin to attach the cloth flower.
During a street clash in 1912 a 73-year-old woman unionist unhorsed the Police Commissioner with her hatpin.
In the late Victorian era and the beginning of the 20th century, the hatpin became a popular and important clothing accessory.
This slightly cubic orb in fine green straw is pierced by a cylinder: a hatpin wittily exaggerated to the scale of a bolt.
A guy who danced with Ms. Fonda at a Long Island country club in the 1950s recalls that she carried a hidden hatpin in her hand to jab her dance partners in the neck.
That seems altogether much more likely than the fanciful story that Her Royal Majesty, blindfolded, simply struck a hatpin in a map of the colony.
Examples from Classical Literature
She drew forth the hatpin which is so much deadlier than the scarfpin of the species.
The shaft for supporting the moving system is made of a piece of a hatpin.
With that out came her hatpin, and she made a lunge at sheeny Rose.
Monny's hat was off, and Biddy's was apparently hanging by a hatpin.
The hatpin slipped from her cold fingers, and fell to the floor.
He lifted it, revealing a counterfeit, which had once ornamented a hatpin.
She never told me of those marks on her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well that they come from a stab with a hatpin.
She also had to use a long, straight hatpin to clean a fuel pipe that had become blocked.
Personally, I'd be just as worried about the lethal hatpin worn by the gang's matriarch Aunt Polly.
Stimulate, ideally with an acupuncture needle, but a hatpin, ballpoint pen, fingernail, or any sharp object will bring them back.
The feisty right-winger has always been like a hatpin in the flesh of authority.
He had to get up and push up his seat before the hatpin was recovered.
Sure, I imagine some overworked name-thinker-upper at Darley simply shoved a hatpin into a big roadmap of Britain and got unlucky, but that's pretty unlucky.
John Hatpin is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress focusing on political ideology, elections, and public opinion.
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