How to Use pushpin in a Sentence

pushpin

noun

• Use a pushpin to poke a hole through the top of each tube, on the back side.
  — Jonathan Adolph, Popular Science, 24 Nov. 2020
• Cut loops on other end, and use a pushpin to attach to the cake.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 29 Mar. 2021
• Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag.
  — Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Insert a black pushpin for the eye; adhere twigs with hot-glue for the feet.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• Make a small desk seem bigger with the addition of cork or pushpin boards.
  — Grace Gallagher, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
• The beach was a pushpin on a map and its capture would arguably lead to Britain’s fall.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• The location of the fractal drainages pictured in the image at the top of this post is marked here with the red pushpin.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2013
• The stuff of her days is Post-It Notes and paper clips, Bic pens and pushpins.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Procedure Push at least four pushpins into the body of the bottle, about one inch from its bottom.
  — Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
• Once the syringe is attached to the adapter (the adapter already being stuck airtight to the glass), the pushpin is removed.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2018
• There’s also four compartments for small office supplies like pushpins, rubber bands, mini binder clips and paper clips.
  — Anna Goldfarb, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• On social media, these institutions sometimes use a red pushpin emoji with the name of the tribe whose homeland the college sits on.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• Use black pushpins or silver straight pins (color heads with black permanent marker) to attach zipper, shaping mouth opening.
  — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
• Corral small office supplies such as paperclips and pushpins in the lids, turning them into open-top storage containers.
  — Maria Sabella, The Spruce, 9 Feb. 2026
• Matchsticks are the bars of fire escapes, a pushpin is a light bulb, a paper clip fixed just right to a Popsicle stick end is a padlock, plastic beads are wheels on a dumpster.
  — Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The red string began to appear before Welsh, connecting the pushpins of CF clues that had felt disconnected for so long.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
• Soni bought a corkboard map of the United States for charting workers’ journeys, and devoted a red pushpin to Gonzalez.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Another shows Pinterest’s signature pushpin—made more lovable, naturally, with the addition of a smiley face.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2019
• Some of the items that were lodged in people’s ears included a cufflink, wet tissues, a plastic sword, an insect, a rock, a lollipop, a charger, a piece of ice cream cone, a pushpin, a pencil eraser and a Battleship game piece.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2023
• The map is full of yellow pushpins denoting sales to nearly 70 countries, including China, Nigeria, and Trinidad and Tobago.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2017
• And remember,a phone's GPS may not be entirely accurate, especially if there are several tall buildings around, and so riders should review their map location and tweak if necessary (by moving the pushpin on the map).
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023