Example Sentences

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Paper bag, plush, and recently she started making flat ones out of cardboard that have joints made out of metal brads giving them some mobility.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2016

An insurance adjuster allowed the claim, but the company discovered that smart Gerald Bodine had mulcted insurance firms ten times for gulping nails, brads, tacks, pins, et al.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had been promoted from gluing on the bristles to fastening the wooden halves of a brush together with brads.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Nail to one side of the table, four inches from the end, a stick six feet long, one inch wide, and one-half inch thick, using two two-inch brads.

From Crayon Portraiture Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements by Barhydt, Jerome A.

Advantage can be taken of the adhesive substance on the tape which holds it in place on the brads.

From Boys' Book of Model Boats by Yates, Raymond F. (Raymond Francis)