Example sentences for: pin

How can you use “pin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • John Roche tried to pin Vietnam on JFK.

  • A roomful of self-portraits, with changing identities worthy of Cindy Sherman (van Gogh as citified dandy in pink fedora; van Gogh as country yokel in straw hat), implies a sort of plural van Gogh, a chameleon personality hard to pin down.

  • Today, with two and a half hours allocated to each side for closing arguments, the case contracts once again until it is virtually dancing on the head of the pin.

  • Similarly, it's easier to pin America's drug problem on Pablo Escobar or to blame global terrorism on a single nefarious puppeteer such as Bin Laden.

  • I personally always thought it was a risk to pin the image of Microsoft on just one man--at AOL, for example, there was a conscious effort to develop other "characters," for lack of a better word.


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