Example Sentences

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He has been buttonholing some very powerful people, inside and beyond Fifa, to talk about 2018.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2010

He has been buttonholing every yokel he came across, and asking them why they had to work, while we—I and you, you know—did nothing.

From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)