| 单词 | thumbtack |
| 例句 | But then I matched the map in the gift shop to the thumbtack holes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He had thumbtacked a poster to the back wall of the locker on the first day of school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I saw was those horses thumbtacked all over the wall. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z There was a camp rule against junk food, so she’d wrap a bag of M&M’s in brown paper, cover it with a thousand pieces of tape, and label it thumbtacks or something. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The best thing in the whole room was one wall that was covered with pictures of some horses cut out of a bunch of magazines and stuck on the wall with thumbtacks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I poked the thumbtack into the top of Momma’s picture and walked to the wall that she’d stuck all the pictures of horses on. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z I think of Finch and Amanda, and then I look at the closet door, where you can still see the thumbtack holes from my calendar. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I tear down the flyer from the thumbtack. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But I may have gone a little far when I put a thumbtack on my teacher’s seat during class. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I have thumbtacks to pin my sheets to the walls, creating new walls, and alleys and roofs, so we’re hidden away in a labyrinth. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The little holes in that wall in the strip mall— maybe a map that plotted points with thumbtacks? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Some of them are closer to the size of thumbtacks. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Maxy had cleared a spot on her bulletin board and after I gave her the key she thumbtacked it to the cork. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a few gig flyers thumbtacked to a board, many of them for shows he’d attended with Rawiya in the last year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z With one long stride he was there, and the four thumbtacks shot off and skittered across the floor as he tore the paper down. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The solution is to dump the thumbtacks out of the box, tack the box to the wall, and stick the candle onto the box. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She never sold anything she wrote, but from time to time she received an encouraging rejection letter, and she thumbtacked those to the wall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There were three boxes of thumbtacks, and one of those doggone Ticonderoga pencils. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z List upon list of phone numbers and email addresses were taped up to the lower half, interspersed with handwritten notes held up with thumbtacks pressed directly into the wall. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She busied herself with sticking the thumbtack a little tighter into the wall. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There are nails and thumbtack holes all over the walls where pictures and posters have been removed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Pinned with thumbtacks in a circle, all those stormy treehouse drawings surrounding one strong, smiling girl. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A few grains of the powder fell onto the bridge of her nose as she used the thumbtack to stamp a dot above her eyebrows. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They stuffed this around the doorjamb and fixed it over the knotholes with thumbtacks borrowed from the Fujitas. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They started appearing immediately, everywhere in New York; stapled, taped, thumbtacked all over the city, photographs and photocopies, flyers, letters, sticky notes, and desperate pleas. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z A jumble of index cards was thumbtacked to the wall. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But then one day he saw her standing before the bathroom mirror, solemnly applying, with the head of a thumbtack, a fresh stroke of scarlet powder, which she stored in a small jam jar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z From his toolbox, Papi pulled out a package of green thumbtacks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I took one of the thumbtacks out and went back to Momma’s bed. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Streamers decorate the walls, and pictures of books are thumbtacked on bulletin boards. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Lexie scanned the living room: only a few throw pillows stacked on the carpet, bare walls now except for some stray thumbtack holes in the plaster. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She thumbtacks the photos to the bulletin board over her desk and Scotch tapes them to the walls of her room. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the wall with the rolled-up carpet, I discovered nine thumbtack holes in the cracked and paint- peeled wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I take a thumbtack and hang the picture next to the drawing before sitting down on my bed and grabbing my pocket notebook and pencil off my bedside table. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The smallest was no longer than a thumbtack. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I pressed one thumbtack to hold it in place, and Ms. Taggart got up to help me fix the rest of it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Then, without saying anything, he walked over to the picture of the sun, pulled one of the thumbtacks from it and hung his picture beside it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I ran all the way back to the office and found a bunch of thumbtacks in a desk adjacent to Margo’s, before Radar and I carefully carried the unfurled map back to Margo’s room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z About how I got expelled from school for putting a thumbtack on my teacher’s chair—he had it coming—and how I almost went to reform school because of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was at last nestled upon his perch, he looked like an eggplant balanced atop a thumbtack. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On one wall were about a dozen or so ziplock baggies tacked up with fat silver thumbtacks, each with a decaying carcass of some kind inside. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z While we are on ravioli, even if they are stuffed with thumbtacks and rusty pennies, they are better than spaghetti. How my dad's sugary East Baltimore spaghetti made me want to abolish the pasta shape 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z They were thumbtacked over my windows; I didn’t have light in my apartment for years. Cat Marnell, a Former Beauty Editor, on Her New Addiction Memoir 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z While the dance of death between these two antsy Appalachians makes for a lively sideshow, the play’s tragic denouement feels thumbtacked on. | 'Cattywampus': ?Cattywampus? at Incubator Arts Project - Review 2012-01-12T23:37:24Z We motored over to Aaron Island, a small thumbtack of wilderness surrounded by water. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s as visually pulse-pounding as thumbtacks on a driveway, and an invitation to close one’s eyes and concentrate on the A.S.M.R. pleasure of shuddering steel. ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The rough concentric circles on its shell looked like small topographical renderings of a cluster of hills; its tiny webbed feet displayed miniscule nails shorter than thumbtacks. In Chesapeake Bay, Poplar Island is a man-made miracle 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In this version, the end of the ribbon can be secured to the top edge of the door with thumbtacks or heavy-duty staples. An easy, elegant and strangely addictive holiday project: DIY boxwood wreaths 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Still, she swallows a thumbtack well before her second trimester. When Moms Attack 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z She first swallows a marble, then escalates to more dangerous objects — a thumbtack, a chess piece, a battery — all potentially fatal to her and the baby. ‘Swallow’ Review: Objects in Stomach May Be Sharper Than They Appear 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But in “Weather,” it’s written on a card thumbtacked to a wall. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The audience — yet Kemper’s no-nonsense pixie who suffers a dozen thumbtacks to the face runs a close second. ‘Home Sweet Home Alone’ Review: A Winter With Plenty of Falls 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The sound was like thumbtacks plinking rhythmically on a tin roof. Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Banjo Player, Dies at 88; 2012-03-29T05:13:11Z If Run the Jewels are the polemicist poets facing America’s racial reckoning with six-foot-high spray-painted lettering, Clipping’s members are the academics connecting the horrors of the country’s past with thumbtacks and string. 2020 Is Chaotic. Clipping’s New Horror-Rap Album Captures It. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z But the piece’s surface is chopped-up and lumpy, like sculptural relief, with paint-stroke-size slivers of paper layered three deep and held down with thumbtacks. ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,’ a Victory Lap at MoMA 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Each tiny generator was a flattened spiral — imagine the head of a thumbtack, if it were shaped from a tight coil of metal rather than a single flat sheet — measuring 0.2 inches across. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z And, most prominently, a giant red thumbtack on Patton Avenue indicating his home — and existential renovation project — of more than 40 years. A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z As I munched on raw crackers smeared with macadamia nut butter, the thought of devouring, say, a cheeseburger seemed as wrong as munching on thumbtacks. Woody Harrelson, Rogue Number One 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z He stared up his roof, covered in colorful thumbtacks. Walker Hayes isn’t afraid to sing about struggling, and it’s making him a success 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “I would be flattering myself to claim any genealogy,” Offerman says by phone, “but he’s definitely one of the main thumbtacks on my chart of inspirations.” Review | Nick Offerman would like to invite you to dinner 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Our final days of living together consisted of a makeshift divider in our home office using a bed sheet and thumbtacks. My double life in therapy 2013-01-15T01:00:00Z Broadcaster TVE showed a thumbtack that its reporter on a motorbike found on the course. Kron wins 2nd stage of Spanish Vuelta marred by thumbtacks 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z “I basically just used clear thumbtacks. It was stupid easy.” Make a big statement with mural art in your home — GALLERY | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Then using the pushpin thumbtack, poke holes up and down the bag. How to (deliberately) grow your own mushrooms at home 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z We can draw an ellipse by taking some fixed length of flexible string and attaching the ends to two thumbtacks. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z We can draw an ellipse using a piece of cardboard, two thumbtacks, a pencil, and string. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z This summer’s Tour de France was also troubled by thumbtacks tossed on the road. Kron wins 2nd stage of Spanish Vuelta marred by thumbtacks 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z His room was transformed, photos of his family thumbtacked to the ceiling. Scars of COVID persist for sickest survivors, their families 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z His room was transformed, photos of his family thumbtacked to the ceiling. Scars of COVID persist for sickest survivors, families 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z We use a pen to pull the string taut and rotate it around the two thumbtacks. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z Place the thumbtacks in the cardboard to form the foci of the ellipse. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z They received their voter education via handmade fliers thumbtacked to their church bulletin board. Perspective | For black voters, the ‘Democratic establishment’ meets in our living rooms 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z In the booth, a spotter hired just that day would push thumbtacks into whichever names were on the field for each play. Joe Buck sees familiar tie with father, Jack, as he prepares for Super Bowl broadcast 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z “This is the best gift shop ever,” he said, thumbing through drawers of cheap tricks: a “grow a girlfriend” kit; wriggly tentacles that slip over your fingers; head-shaped erasers and thumbtacks for the tacky. Looking for unique holiday gifts? Try these 7 museum shops. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He stuck two silver thumbtacks through the bottom of the plastic cup, then held a battery up to them. The Race to Develop the Moon 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The evidence is on the wall of Room 38, held up with thumbtacks. Lincoln artist continues sketching with Parkinson’s disease 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z You might even wish to write down what you feel, laminate it and thumbtack it to a free-standing bulletin board for all to see. Out of their minds: wild ideas at the ‘Coachella of consciousness’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Instead, putting the schedule together involves the aforementioned thumbtacks and hundreds of little slips of colored paper, assembled on an enormous corkboard in the break room at SIFF’s Seattle Center offices. SIFF 2018: 433 films, 24 days, nine main venues. And one corkboard to rule them all. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z And in the end, there’s no writing-workshop epiphany, but rather that thrilling moment when the circles and arrows linking up the photographs thumbtacked to the squad-room wall form a previously unseen web of connection. Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Sheldon monitored the Weather Bureau advisories and charted the storm’s progress by pushing thumbtacks into a map on his office wall. The True Story of the Most Intense Hurricane You've Never Heard Of 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z One of his fellow riders joked that if there had been a thumbtack on his bike seat, it might have felt better. Markell: Wouldn’t trade bike experience 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z He doesn’t even remember the second shot in the back, the one that missed his spinal cord by about the width of a thumbtack. Teen recovers after West Liberty school shooting 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z The board gets stored away until next spring, when a fresh crop of films — and thumbtacks — awaits. SIFF 2018: 433 films, 24 days, nine main venues. And one corkboard to rule them all. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “I think I put thumbtacks through mine,” Pig Pen said. Catherine Opie, All-American Subversive 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Other items in its repertoire: eyebrow pencils, eyeliners, fountain pens, thumbtacks and pencil cases. New York Today: Our Past in Pencils 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Using sheets, thumbtacks and masking tape, they went from room to room, blocking any windows or sightlines into the house. 17 years after Columbine, the mother of one of the killers finally tells her story 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z They moved it to its current location between the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office and the Mercer County Judge-Executive’s Office, along with extra thumbtacks. Mercer County map reminds residents of presence of drugs 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z He checked and then removed a yellow thumbtack. Police: Girl swallowed thumbtack at Florida day care 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z As Rosenthal puts it, "it's like your whole environment is thumbtacked to you," and existing attempts at parallax video are clumsy. 'Light field' camera maker Lytro announces professional VR video rig 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z She cried as she spoke, sitting on a dirty couch in a rundown apartment where a blanket attached to the wall with thumbtacks blocked the sunlight. AP: Hundreds of officers lose licenses over sex misconduct 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z I get phantom pain when I see a thumbtack now. A Hands-On Experience 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z “We used thumbtacks in the back of the gloves. Hopefully, they would use this in self-defense if someone is attacking them,” Julia said. School projects based on helping soldiers 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, notebook papers, pencil, and thumbtacks. Photos: Henri Matisse Cutouts: The Joy of 'Painting With Scissors' "It's like your whole environment is thumbtacked to you." 'Light field' camera maker Lytro announces professional VR video rig 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Hundreds of such fragments, each about the size of a thumbtack, were sprayed out by at least 11 cluster bomblets that exploded on Mr. Melikhov’s street that morning. Ukraine Used Cluster Bombs, Report Charges 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z We used thumbtacks and it took three days. A Hands-On Experience 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z The first prototype, created by the mechanical engineer who invented the Rainbow Loom, involved thumbtacks and a dental instrument. How the Rainbow Loom Fad Made Millions for Michaels 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “Everyone is very concerned about being a thumbtack on a map somewhere in a big high-rise office building,” he says. A Hedge Fund That Bet Against Housing Becomes an Ohio Landlord 2013-10-24T21:17:17Z When the timer goes off, all cards are submitted anonymously and taped or thumbtacked to a wall for the whole team's consideration. Brainstorming Is Dead 2013-07-31T14:00:10Z Smoldering with anger — and consumed by “self-loathing” for her Asian heritage — she scratched her Korean name, Kyong-ah, into her bedroom wall with a thumbtack. The Saturday Profile: An Adoptee Returns to South Korea, and Changes Follow 2013-06-29T00:07:17Z Surratt’s mother took his mouthpiece and chin strap and thumbtacked it to the wall of her trophy room. A Game, and a Man, They Would Never Forget 2012-11-24T17:55:18Z For archers with perfect vision, the 48-inch target from a distance seems the size of a thumbtack held at arm’s length. With Impaired Vision, Blurry Target Is No Trouble for South Korean Archer 2012-07-28T17:49:41Z And once things start going wrong, that cough medicine starts going down with a handful of thumbtacks. Leading Off: Murray’s Heartbreak at Wimbledon — Leading Off 2012-07-09T15:04:16Z The latter she suspended by a thumbtack beside the mirror of her bureau. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z And they still have flaming thumbtacks on their helmets. Hey Redskins fans, it could be worse! 2011-10-27T14:55:58Z More thumbtacks, surely, will be needed for that map of China. Violent Migrant Protests: The Latest in a Wave of Chinese Social Unrest 2011-06-14T03:31:53Z Gardner leaves plenty of prognosticators squirming on history’s thumbtack, like the British journalist H. N. Norman, who argued, in early 1914, that “there will be no more wars among the six Great Powers.” Why Experts Get the Future Wrong 2011-03-25T20:22:11Z At TED, Sears held up a pincushion of the globe, with red thumbtacks stuck in. The Will to Drill 2011-01-14T19:13:05Z She took the miniature, thumbtack and all, from the wall, 183 and put it in her wrist bag. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z In one classic experiment, the German psychologist Karl Duncker presented people with a candle, a box of thumbtacks and the assignment of attaching the candle to a wall. Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving 2010-12-07T02:30:00Z “Imagine hanging a picture on the wall with reusable gecko tape that doesn’t leave a residue or damage the wall — it’s like a thumbtack, but doesn’t leave a hole,” he said. The Fix: A Sticky Little Lizard Inspires a New Adhesive Tape 2010-02-25T01:23:00Z His Web site features a map of New York with green thumbtacks on towns he has visited in the last year, a virtual forest of green from Ogdensburg to Niagara Falls to Utica. 2010-02-05T03:46:00Z The roll—now a coil—was tacked to the board with thumbtacks. The Blue Ghost Mystery Mrs. Mimms then took the card down to the main floor and attached it to a bulletin board with four thumbtacks. The Amazing Mrs. Mimms Fasten the different parts on a smooth surface by means of thumbtacks and knit to measure, without stretching your work. Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet His and Paul's attention had wandered to the largest color photo thumbtacked to the wall, above the TV set, and the shelf of dog-eared technical books. The Planet Strappers Of course, if charts are large, 20 to 36 inches square, mounting is unnecessary and they will have to be supported in the courtroom with thumbtacks or metal rings. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses Roger drew from his pocket a square of cardboard and affixed it to the board with a thumbtack. The Haunted Bookshop If it is so great an achievement as we are often asked to believe to do certain things in badly chosen material, then why not try to reproduce Rafael's "Sistine Madonna" with thumbtacks? The Galleries of the Exposition The thumbtacked pictures of the systems of far, cold Jupiter and Saturn—Saturn still unapproached, except by small, instrumented rockets—would be the things to appeal to him. The Planet Strappers Did the color photographs of Mars, among all the others that the Bunch had thumbtacked to the shop walls, still appeal p. 9 as strongly to Mitch? The Planet Strappers |
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