thumbtack
to attach or tack by means of a thumbtack.
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How to use thumbtack in a sentence
A gram of some fynbos plants’ root tissue – about the mass of a thumbtack – can stretch over 15 football field lengths of territory.
Africa’s fynbos plants hold their ground with the world’s thinnest roots | Jake Buehler | March 1, 2022 | Science NewsThe chart’s dense web of arrows and connections bore an unmistakable resemblance to an obsessive’s cork board covered with red string and thumbtacks.
They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. | Antonio Regalado | June 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewA thumbtack is inserted in the standard near the top to prevent the box from being lifted entirely from the base.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousLay the stencil pattern in position and thumbtack it down to the cheese cloth and blotting paper.
The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft | Effie Archer ArcherIf knives are used to cut out the design, thumbtack the leather before commencing.
The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft | Effie Archer Archer
The latter she suspended by a thumbtack beside the mirror of her bureau.
Out of the Air | Inez Haynes IrwinShe took the miniature, thumbtack and all, from the wall, 183 and put it in her wrist bag.
Out of the Air | Inez Haynes Irwin
British Dictionary definitions for thumbtack
/ (ˈθʌmˌtæk) /
mainly US and Canadian a short tack with a broad smooth head for fastening papers to a drawing board, etc: Also called (esp in Britain): drawing pin
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