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Example sentences for: pinned

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But the location of Bin Ladin's quarters could not be pinned down so precisely.
for resisting arrest, Domine sing the doughty Monks of Masoch, the man pinned by a tree underwater,
Peter falls for a mousy waitress (Jennifer Aniston) at a theme restaurant where the bosses all look like "Weird Al" Yankovic, and employees are forced to "express themselves" by selecting a minimum of 15 pieces of "flair"--buttons with stupid slogans to be pinned on their uniforms.
Although blame for this development is ordinarily pinned on states like California, greedy for attention, that have front-end-loaded the primary system, the media themselves are also to blame, along with political consultants, pollsters, and so on, all of whom have a vested interest in the "permanent campaign" (a concept used in a book title, if not actually invented, by Sidney Blumenthal, but not necessarily invalid for that reason alone).
When his division was pinned down by a fighter-bomber attack in Africa in 1943, he sustained incredible wounds--the loss of an eye, a hand, and two more fingers--directing the evacuation.