NOUN
- pin consisting of a short straight stiff piece of wire with a pointed end; used to fasten pieces of cloth or paper together
How To Use straight pin In A Sentence
- Documents are copied with carbon paper and then held together by straight pins; staplers are largely unknown.
- Though I've never seen a snake forty feet up a telephone pole-straight pine, I have seen black kingsnake about half that high on twisted slash, a smaller pine.
- Take a ruler and measure off these distances at the top of the drapes with a straight pin.
- Investigators may be able to recover fingerprints from the devices, which law enforcement sources said were rigged with straight pins.
- Documents are copied with carbon paper and then held together by straight pins.
- Each straight pin is cut, chamfered, and polished to remove burrs and enhance performance.
