How to Use stapler in a Sentence

stapler

noun
  • What’s the best stapler to buy?
    Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Form a circle with one strip and connect the ends with tape or a stapler.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
  • And all the girlfriends had staplers going click-click-click.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Clearly, Jim has come a long way from his stapler in jello prank nine years prior.
    Laura Furr Mericas, Chron, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Repeat all of the previous steps for the other 5 pieces of paper. Combine all six of the papers together at the middle point and use your stapler to hold them in place.
    Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The paper clip is an office staple – not to be confused with the office stapler.
    CBS News, 22 May 2022
  • In one study, participants were asked to assign names to everyday items, such as a mug or a stapler.
    Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • When my zine ballooned to over one hundred pages, my stapler refused to bind them, only leaving teeth marks on the cover.
    Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • If you’re untrained in suturing and happen to have a skin stapler, use that (anyone can order one online).
    Malia Wollan, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The magazine was put together with a stapler and a mimeograph machine in the home of one of the editors.
    Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
  • The project manager of the year is given a large, sparkling sword, and the office worker of the year is presented with a gold stapler.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Scissors, staplers and staples used to secure paper products.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Behind her closed door, Bree takes out the data card with Lucy’s confession and crushes it with a stapler.
    Jp Mangalindan, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Shaknovsky then grabbed a surgical stapler, situated it around the vessel, and fired.
    Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2026
  • He’s also accused of throwing objects at workers, including a stapler and a baked potato.
    Peter Marks, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Then the customer threw the bottle of hand sanitizer at the waitress, who responded by throwing the stapler.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2021
  • On other occasions Souw is reported to have thrown files, boxes and a metal stapler at the first woman.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • That’s what the instructions told us to do, the way you’re supposed to use Swingline staples with your Swingline stapler.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • The first port allows the entry of the camera; the ports are used for scalpels, graspers, cauterizing instruments, staplers, or other tools.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2022
  • Electric staplers and other high-end models may cost $20-$60, with a number of high-tech models costing even more.
    Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The retailer also offers office supplies like notebooks and staplers.
    Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 21 June 2026
  • Jim putting Dwight’s stapler in Jell-O, or putting the full contents of Dwight’s desk into the office vending machine?
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • This is a face only Frankenstein's mom would love, put together like a slapdash jigsaw puzzle with the help of an industrial-grade stapler.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Two of the students were allegedly seen in the footage getting hit in the head with a metal stapler; Mullings also allegedly threw her shoe at one of the students but missed.
    Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • Much of his work was put out by small publishers, often as small as Hirschman’s room, outfitted with a copy machine and stapler, and a print run of 150 copies.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
  • These seats also do double-duty as storage bins to keep all my other office essentials handy, like a stapler, some tape, important files and documents, and more.
    Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 12 July 2023
  • Although basic, anyone who works from home will need essentials, including pens, pencils, paper, a stapler, a desk calendar, and paper clips.
    Bestreviews, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
  • GameStop is auctioning an infamous stapler that punctured the screens of new Nintendo Switch 2 screens.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2025
  • One arm typically inserts the camera while others insert tools such as scalpels, graspers, cauterizing instruments, and staplers.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2022
  • These outbursts include ripping a television off the wall and smashing it on the ground, throwing staplers across the room, smashing picture frames on the walls, and breaking glass that scatters across the office.
    Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

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